Grand Lodge Colored Knights of Pythias v. Smith

Citations

• 89 Miss. 718
• 42 So. 89

Syllabus

<p>Insurance. Marriage. Duress. Widow.</p> <p>A woman is not the widow of a decedent, within the terms of an insurance certificate payable to insured’s “widow or other heirs,” where the insured was coerced into marrying her and never thereafter cohabited with or visited her, but always repudiated the pretended marriage,</p>