JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. PATE

SC 57.

274 So.2d 291 (1973)

JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, v. Linda Hall PATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spain, Gillon, Riley, Tate & Ansley and Ollie L. Blan, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

Wheeler & Christian, Birmingham, for appellee.


McCALL, Justice.

Linda Hall Pate, the appellee, brought this action on the double indemnity agreement attached to and forming a part of a life insurance policy, issued by the appellant Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company to her now deceased husband, Thomas Attaway Pate, the named insured. He died from a shotgun wound inflicted in the upper area of the right chest. The appellant paid the appellee as beneficiary under...

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