Seaboard Life Insurance v. Murphy

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

Mrs. Viola Murphy, defendant in error, was named as beneficiary in a policy of life insurance issued by Seaboard Life Insurance Company, plaintiff in error, on the life of Charles Calvin Murphy, her deceased husband. Upon his death she was paid $3,000.00, the full face value of the policy, but the Insurance Company denied liability upon a “Supplementary Agreement for Accidental Death Benefit,” attached to the policy and this suit is upon such supplementary agreement only. The beneficiary recovered in the trial…