Life Ass'n of America v. Waller
Supreme Court of Georgia
Insurance. Suicide. Contracts. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. February Term, 1876. Mrs. Waller sued out an attachment against the Life Association of America, based on a policy of insurance on the life of her husband, A. R. Waller.
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Insurance. Suicide. Contracts. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. February Term, 1876. Mrs. Waller sued out an attachment against the Life Association of America, based on a policy of insurance on the life of her husband, A. R. Waller. On the trial,.the evidence made, in brief, the following case: Waller's life was insured by defendant, for the benefit of his wife or other legal holder of the policy, in the sum of $5,000 00. One of the conditions of the policy was that “ if the insured shall die by suicide during the continuance of this policy, said Life Association will pay to…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
The Code (section 2822) and the contract alike declare that suicide shall make the policy void. What is suicide? The meaning of a word depends less upon a derivation than upon usase. The former indicates what, according to sound scholarship, the word ought to mean, but the latter determines more directly what it does mean. A word may be more comprehensive or less comprehensive than the term or terms from which it was derived. It may drop attributes which they included, or grasp some which they did not include. Again, many words are used, sometimes in a proper, and at other…
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