Travelers Ins. Co. v. Welch

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment upon a policy of accident insurance, and raises questions whether a finding of death by suicide rather than accident is demanded, and whether refusal of the beneficiary to accede to a demand for an autopsy defeats recovery, and whether instructions to the jury on these subjects were correct. The evidence all goes to show that the insured was in good health, fond of his wife and young daughter, had employment and was in hopes of a profitable business, his circumstances being no more depressed than was common in the summer of 1933. On…