Dischner v. Piqua Mut. Aid & Accident Ass'n
South Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Minnehaha county, Ho.n. Joseph W. Jones, Judge. _ Action by Joseph Dischner and others against the Piqua Mutual Aid & Accident Association of Piqua, Ohio. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff’s appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtFuller, P. J.
In the sworn proofs of death which the plaintiffs allege they furnished conformably to a certificate of membership, or.life insurance policy issued to John Dischner by the defendant, and made the basis of this suit, suicide is specified by the attending physician as the immediate cause of the death of the insured, and *437it is claimed that the testimony offered at the trial tends to corroborate such statement. At the conclusion of all the evidence the trial court took the case from the jury by the direction of a verdict in favor of defendant, and plaintiffs appeal from a judgment accordingly…
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- Bates v. Fremont, E. & M. V. R.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1893
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