CLAY COUNTY COTTON CO. v. HOME LIFE INS. CO.

No. 11581.

113 F.2d 856 (1940)

CLAY COUNTY COTTON CO. v. HOME LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 26, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. B. Oliver, Jr., of Little Rock, Ark. (C. T. Bloodworth, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Charles D. Frierson, of Jonesboro, Ark., for appellee.

Before WOODROUGH and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and BELL, District Judge.


BELL, District Judge.

This is an action by appellant against appellee to recover on an insurance policy issued December 26, 1924, on the life of Fred B. Sprague. At the close of the plaintiff's case the court directed a verdict for the defendant, and this appeal is from the judgment entered thereon.

The insured was president of a bank at Corning, Arkansas, and, with three partners, was also a dealer in cotton at that place under the name of the Clay County...

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