Life & Casualty Ins. v. King
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. —A. B. PittmaN, Judge.-
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil
delivered the' opinion of the Court.
On the 23d of March, 1914, the plaintiff issued to Walter King a policy providing for a weekly premium of twenty-five cents, a maximum weekly allowance for sickness or accident of $5, and the amount of $70 payable in the event of his death. He died on February 25, 1915, and the present action was shortly thereafter brought to recover the $70.
Both sides moved for peremptory instructions, and the trial court overruled that of the plaintiff in error, and granted that of the defendant, in error,, the wife of the deceased, to whom the policy was payable in case…
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- Barnes v. Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Russell v. Prudential Insurance of AmericaNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
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