Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. Wigley

STAKELY, Justice.

This is a suit brought by Ida Leola Sterling Wigley (appellee) against Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company (appellant) on a policy of life insurance in the principal sum of $2500. The policy was issued by appellant on September 15, 1939, on the life of Perry Braswell Wigley and is payable to Ida Leola Sterling Wigley, his wife, as beneficiary. The insured, Perry Braswell Wigley, died on August 30, 1940.

The defense in this case is death of the insured by suicide with no liability by reason of the following clause contained in the policy: “In case of self-destruction…