Stanback v. Winston Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
’WiNBORNE, J.
Appellant concedes that if tbe insured bad died witbin six months from tbe time tbe policy took effect, as result of any other natural cause than those enumerated in paragraph “4. Limitations,” tbe beneficiary would be entitled to recover one-balf of tbe “ultimate amount of insurance specified in tbe policy,” that is, $150. But it contends that since tbe insured died of pneumonia witbin such period of six months— pneumonia being one of tbe causes of death named in said paragraph 4, tbe beneficiary would be entitled to receive only one-fourth of tbe amount of $150, which would be…
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