Legal Security Life Insurance Co. v. Thomas

If I felt free to discard the accepted rules governing suits upon policies of insurance which have been hammered out by our courts over the past century, and could adopt the ancient rule of admiralty known as rusticum judicium,* I might be able to come to the same conclusion that was reached by the majority.

At the outset, I point out that the quotation from the insuring clause of the policy is not complete. Immediately following the ellipsis, are found these words: “ . . . whose names for the period of insurance granted hereunder, including renewal thereof, appear on the payroll records of…