Cleaver v. Central States Life Insurance

This is an action on an insurance policy for $10,000, with interest and damages for vexatious delay including attorney's fee. Plaintiff had verdict and judgment for the total amount of $11,500, and defendant has appealed.

By the policy, issued October 6, 1928, defendant agreed to pay to plaintiff as beneficiary "immediately upon receipt of due proof of death of Thomas E. Cleaver, the insured, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, which is the face amount hereof." The insured died on February 4, 1939, from "the result of the inhalation of carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust of his automobile while…