SMITH v. SOUTHERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 21626.

134 So.2d 337 (1961)

Louis SMITH v. SOUTHERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Monie and C. Cyril Broussard, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before YARRUT, SAMUEL and HALL, JJ.


HALL, Judge pro tem.

Plaintiff, Louis Smith, as the named beneficiary in a policy of life insurance issued by the defendant, Southern National Life Insurance Company, on the life of one Willie D. Gilbert, filed this suit seeking to recover the face amount of the policy plus an equal amount under the double indemnity clause of the contract.

To this suit defendant filed an exception of no right of action based on the ground that the plaintiff beneficiary had...

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