COLONIAL LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. v. DORMAN

No. 15147.

221 F.2d 347 (1955)

COLONIAL LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY v. Alma Juanita R. DORMAN, a widow.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 20, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. O. Pemberton, J. Velma Keen, Keen, O'Kelley & Spitz, Tallahassee, Fla., S. Augustus Black, Columbia, S. C., for appellant.

George W. Atkinson, Atkinson & Williams, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, TUTTLE, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for the sum of $2,625 with interest and attorney's fees of $875 for the accidental death of her husband, under a policy of insurance. There was no dispute that the death had been accidental. Several errors are charged, including denial of appellant's motion for summary judgment and the refusal to direct a verdict in its favor upon the whole case. The issue is largely one...

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