Smith v. Safety Fund Insurance Society

Plaintiff, widow of Oliver ‘P. Smith., formerly a resident of Pike county, Missouri, as beneficiary therein, brought this action upon an insurance certificate issued on the first of April, 1901, upon the life of her deceased husband, by defendant, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York. A trial before the judge and a jury in the circuit court of Pike county terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.

The bill of exceptions reveals that defendant filed motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment in due 'time which were properly continued…