Travelers' Insurance v. Nicklas
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas (Harlan, C. J.). The deceased referred to in this case was found dead about io o’clock one morning lying on the floor of his bath room, fully dressed to go out, with a pistol shot wound over the right ear and the pistol on the floor near by. No motive for suicide was shown, nor any suspicious circumstances, and the deceased kept a pistol in that room which he often handled.
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
The Travelers’ Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, issued a policy on the life of William' Nicklas of Baltimore City. The insured died in December, 1896, from the effect of a pistol wound in his head, and the insurance company refused to pay the full amount *472oí the policy, less the sum of $300 which was admitted to be due to it by the insured — and this refusal was upon the ground that the death.of the insured was the result of suicide. Whereupon this suit was instituted by the plaintiff, the widow of the insured and the beneficiary named in the policy. All other defences, save that of…
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