Parker v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying the appellant a recovery on an insurance policy on the life of her son, Robert M. Parker, in which she is the beneficiary.

The death of Robert M. Parker was not proven, but he disappeared more than seven years before the suit was brought, and has not since been heard of. To rebut the presumption of Parker’s death arising from his unexplained absence from the state, the appellee introduced in evidence, over the appellant’s objection, the fact that Parker, just prior to his disappearance, was placed under bond to await the action of the grand jury-on a…