Lincoln Income Life Ins. Co. v. Mann

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Will Mattingly, a colored man some fifty odd years of age, was employed by a farmer in Nelson County as an assistant in cutting and shocking corn on August 20, 1941. At about 2 p. m. on that day while so employed he dropped, dead in the field where he’ was at work, his demise being immediate.

On February 3, 1941, appellant, and defendant below, Lincoln Income Life Insurance Company, issued to him a combined industrial policy including death benefits in the total amount of $56 in consideration of stipulated weekly payments'by the insured. The…