Balto. L.I. Co. of Balto. v. Fahrney

The appellant, the Baltimore Life Insurance Company, on the 6th day of August, 1915, issued an insurance policy on the life of John Calvin Fahrney with the appellee, Rose Alba Fahrney, named as beneficiary.

On the morning of April 20th, 1916, the insured was found by his wife in a dying condition upon the floor of his bedroom, in his residence in Hagerstown, Maryland, with a gash upon the left side of his throat, which severed the external jugular vein. He died shortly after being discovered by his wife from hemorrhage resulting from the severance of the vein.

Upon the appellant's refusal to…