Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1908 — SUIT ON AN OLD POLICY. [ARTICLE]

SUIT ON AN OLD POLICY.

Wife of Missing Man Did Not Know of Insurance. Martinsville, Ind., Nov. 20.—An interesting case Is pending in the Monroe Circuit Court. It is a suit brought by Mrs. Elizabeth King against the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, to compel the payment of a SIO,OOO policy, held by her husband, S. T. Buckner, who left in 1867 and has never been heard from. Mrs. King never knew of the existence of the policy until three years ago, when the insurance company, in looking over their books and finding that no disposition had ever been made of the policy, began tb make inquiry with the intention of taking it off their books. Mrs. King was the wife of S. T. Buckner in 1867. In that year, in company with his brother-in-law, W. H. Baker, he left for New Orleans with a shipment of horses and mules. Buckner obtained the sum of $6,200 from the First National Bank of this city, to use in buying the stock. He and Baker never returned and have never been heard from since, and consequently the bank lost the money. During the trial, two letters that were written by Buckner to his wife after their ’arrival in New Orleans, were read. . In one of them he stated that several, men had been killed in New Qrleans about that time, but that he and Baker had no fear. As they. never .came home and nothing has. since been learned qf them, their friends thtah that they were killed. Beleiving that hpr husband was dead, Mrs. Buckner married King. His death came several years later. In her complaint Mrs. King alleges