Standard Life & Accident Insurance v. Martin

On the 26th day of January, 1888, appellee’s decedent took out a policy of insurance in appellant’s life and accident insurance company. Some time in June, 1888, said policy being in full force and effect, said decedent, while engaged as a brakeman on. a construction train of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company, was accidentally thrown against some projecting timbers, and so injured that, from the effects, he died July 15,1888. On December 24, 1889, appellant having failed and refused to pay the amount of said policy, or any part of it, the appellee (administrator) filed his substituted…