Butler v. Supreme Court
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered May 18, 1908, in favor of the defendant by direction of the court, upon discharging the jury, dismissing an action on a benefit insurance certificate.
1Opinion of the Court
Dunbar, J.-
August Schneider, upon whose life the beneficiary certificate herein sued upon was issued, disappeared from his home in the city of Spokane, July 7, 1898. On that date he was last seen by Mrs. Belle Bassett, his sister-in-law, standing at his front gate talking to a stranger. When Mrs. Bassett was passing out of the gate, Mr. Schneider called to her, saying that he was going to the mines to be gone for several days, and asked her to come over and take care of the house and to sprinkle the lawn while he was gone, and re*120quested her to say to his wife, who was visiting away from home,…
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