Cosmopolitan Life Insurance v. Woodward

Will Woodward died at the General Hospital in the City of Nashville on April 20, 1926, and this suit was instituted before a Justice of the Peace of Davidson county on May 19, 1926, by his widow, Nannie Woodward, against the Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company to recover the sum of $320 alleged to be due the plaintiff under an insurance policy issued February 22, 1926, by the defendant on the life of plaintiff's deceased husband, and in which policy plaintiff was named as the beneficiary.

The defendant appealed from an adverse judgment of the Justice of the Peace to the circuit court of…