Redwine v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

Mb,. Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company issued an industrial policy insuring the life of Mattie Moore. Her husband, Samuel Moore, was the named beneficiary. If the named beneficiary predeceased the insured, payment was to be made to the estate of the insured. In 1925 Samuel Moore disappeared. Eleven years later Mattie Moore died. The courts below found as a fact that Samuel Moore was absent without explanation for seven years, and, basing their conclusion on the generally recognized presumption from unexplained absense, held that Samuel…