AMERICAN LIFE INS. CO. v. HAUER

No. 38885.

218 Miss. 560 (1953)

67 So.2d 523

41 Adv. S. 2

AMERICAN LIFE INS. CO. v. HAUER.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

November 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wells, Thomas & Wells, Roland D. Marble, Jackson, for appellant.

Holcomb & Curtis, Clarksdale, for appellee.


LEE, J.

This was a suit in the chancery court by Mrs. Corinne W. Hauer against American Life Insurance Company to recover the proceeds of an insurance policy on the life of Jesse H. Whitworth. Issue was joined and, on final hearing, there was a decree for the complainant. The Insurance Company appealed.

The policy was taken out by Whitworth in 1944. It became lost, and on August 20, 1946, the Company issued a duplicate in which Mrs. Hauer, sister of the policyholder...

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