Watkins v. Atlantic Life Insurance

MYERS, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal by a beneficiary of a policy of insurance, issued on the life of one Cleveland Artis by the Atlantic Life Insurance Co. and assumed by the Southwestern Life Insurance Co., from a judgment denying her the benefits allegedly due her as a result of the insured’s death. The defenses raised by the appellee insurance companies were (1) that appellant had, upon their payment to her of $140.94, executed a “release” of all claims and demands under the policy; (2) that the death of the insured was the result of fighting, which was within the exclusionary clause…