Evans v. Orleans Industrial Life, Health, Accident & Burial Ben. Ins. Co.

Viola Evans, as beneficiary, brought this action against the defendant, an industrial life insurance company, to recover the face value, i. e., $175 of a policy issued on the life of her father on October 14-, 1929.

The petition alleges that the insured died at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans on February 27, 1930, and that documentary proof of death, together with the policy and premium receipt books, were delivered to the defendant, but that it has refused to pay the claim, and that plaintiff is entitled to the sum of $175, plus 6 per cent, interest because of the company’s arbitrary and…