Murphy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Charles Houncker, for many years a resident of the city of Corning, disappeared from his home on the 9th day of February, 1911, and has never returned. Nothing has been heard from him since that time except that it was claimed, on the trial of a former action between the same parties, that after Mr. Houncker disappeared he had been seen in Texas, but that rumor was carefully traced, and was shown to be without merit.

*480At the time Mr, Houncker disappeared he held a life insurance policy in the defendant company which had been carried for some years, and which was then in full force. A premium…