Gooding v. United States Life Insurance

This case was here before under the title of United States Life Ins. Co. v. Kielgast, Adm’r, and is reported in 26 Ill. App. 567, and is also reported in 129 Ill. 557, under the title, United States Life Ins. Co. v. Vocke, Adm’r, the judgment of this court being reversed.

This court had decided that "neither the record of the coroner’s inquest held over the body of the insured, Otto Wilhelm Kielgast, nor the depositions taken upón that inquest, were admissible as evidence for-the company, as to the cause of his death. The Supreme Court held that the verdict of the coroner’s jury was so…