Centanni v. Southern Life & Health Ins. Co.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This is a suit by a beneficiary of an Industrial Life Insurance Policy claiming $500 as the face value of the policy and $10.80 as unearned premiums. There was judgment below in favor of the defendant, and plaintiff has appealed.

The suit is defended upon one ground only, and that is that the policy, at the time of the death of the insured on August 10, 1934, had lapsed because of nonpayment of the premium.

The policy sued on was issued to Walter Brown, a negro employee of Peter Centanni, the beneficiary, plaintiff herein, in October, 1933, and called for the payment of a…