United Order of the Golden Cross v. Overton
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Madison County; Robert O. Brickell, Judge. Action by Sallie N. Overton against tbe United Order of tbe Golden Gross. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
[1] Action on a policy of life insurance. Special pleas allege in substance that tbe insured was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to bang for tbe crime Of murder, that pending an appeal be escaped from jail, and that, when officers of the law undertook to arrest him, he committed a felonious assault upon them with a deadly weapon, whereupon the said officers killed him in self-defense. The proposition of this appeal is that the death of the insured under tire circumstances alleged was not a risk covered by the policy, that when the insured violated the criminal law, and in so doing…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Supreme Commandery of the Knights of the Golden Rule v. AinsworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
- Burt v. Union Central Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. LovejoySupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
- Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias v. OvertonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
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