Roehrig v. Missouri State Life Insurance

This is an appeal from the city court of East St. Louis, from a judgment of the court for the defendant upon the life insurance policy of Martin J. Boehrig, in which the plaintiff, his widow, is beneficiary. A trial was had in May term, 1926, of the said court and a verdict of the jury rendered for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,900. The court, upon a motion for a new trial by the defendant, set the verdict aside. It was stipulated that a new trial should be by the court, the record previously made before the jury being agreed upon as the record before the court. The court found for the…