Brooks v. Continental Casualty Co.

The defendant company issued an insurance policy for $1,000 to Moses Brooks, who was killed in December, 1927, by J. A. Legendre, deputy sheriff.

Plaintiff, Sequeener Brooks, his beneficiary, obtained judgment against defendant company for $1,000, the amount of the insurance, from which it appeals.

Mr. Legendre, the deputy sheriff, having been notified that a negro had been held up and robbed at the Gulf Coast Yards near Anchorage, went there at about 9 o’clock at night looking for the robbers. He says he came across two men who tallied with the description he had of the holdup men, and, so…