Grand Lodge Colored Knights of Pythias v. Hill

Citations

• 110 Miss. 249
• 70 So. 347

Syllabus

<p>1. Parties. Trial. Amendment. Lost instrument. Sufficiency of evidence.</p> <p>Where the administrator of the estate of a deceased brought suit upon a life insurance policy and it was subsequently discovered that the policy was payable to the wife and children of deceased, an amendment substituting them as plaintiffs should he allowed..</p> <p>2. Lost Instrument. Sufficiency of evidence.</p> <p>In a suit upon a lost life insurance policy, where its loss and contents were sought to he proven alone by a witness who had no personal knowledge that the policy had ever been issued, or that it had ever been lost or what it contained, a peremptory instruction for the plaintiff should not have been given.</p>