American United Life Ins. v. Franklin

STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an action upon a life insurance policy for $5,000.00. From an adverse judgment for $4,066.86 on the policy (the face of the policy less a loan) and $488.02 for statutory damages and $300.00 for attorney fee (Crawford and Moses Digest of Arkansas, Section 6155), the insurance company appeals.

This action was filed in the State court and removed by the insurance company. The parties present the appeal on the merits of the controversy without any question of the jurisdiction of-trial court as a federal court. This attitude of the parties does not affect the duty of…