Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. McCue
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the liability Of a life insurance company on a policy on the life of one who came to his death by hanging after conviction and sentence for murder, and the construction of the policy itself, as well as by what law it is to be construed', are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The question in the cáse is whether death by the hand of the law in execution of a conviction and sentence for murder, is covered by a policy of life insurance though such manner of death is not excepted from the policy, there being no question, of the justness of the sentence.
The case was in equity and brought in the Corporation Court for the city of Chárlottesville, State of Virginia, by respondents, children and sole heirs of James S. McCue, by Marshall Dinwiddie, their next friend, upon a policy -of life insurance issued to McCue1 by petitioner, named herein.as. the insurance company.
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