Security Life Insurance Co. of America v. Bates
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District; A. B. Priddy, Judge; STATEMENT OR RAOTS. Amos B. Bates,' administrator of the estate of Alvin S. Bates, sued the Security Life Insurance Company of America to recover on a policy of life insurance for $2,000. The company defended on the ground that the policy had been forfeited because the insured had not complied with the War Clause contained in it.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District; A. B. Priddy, Judge; STATEMENT OR RAOTS. Amos B. Bates,' administrator of the estate of Alvin S. Bates, sued the Security Life Insurance Company of America to recover on a policy of life insurance for $2,000. The company defended on the ground that the policy had been forfeited because the insured had not complied with the War Clause contained in it. On the 27th day of August, 1917, the Security Life Insurance Company of America issued a life insurance policy to Alvin S. Bates for $2,000, payable to the insured’s administrators, executors…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
(after stating the facts). Where both parties ash for a peremptory instruction and do nothing more, they assume the facts to be undisputed, and in effect submit to the trial court the determination of the inferences to be drawn from them. St. L., I. M. & S. Ry. Co. v. Ingram, 118 Ark. 388.
In the case at bar each party asked the court for a peremptory instruction and requested no other instruction. This then amounted to a submission of the cause to the court sitting as a jury, and in reviewing the action of the trial court we are limited to a consideration of the correctness of the finding on…
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