Cole v. Standard Life Ins. Co.

Griffith, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.'

The principal issue in this case, and to which all other issues are subsidiary, is whether the death of the in-, sured, Kate Kingsley Cole, was by suicide or was accidental. Her death occurred in Okolona, .Mississippi, her old home, on Saturday evening, April 16, 1932, at the end of a week’s visit. About '7 o’clock P. M., she went into the kitchen of the home in which she had been sojourning that week and remarked that she must go to her room and finish her packing, by placing in her baggage her pistol which she had not yet placed therein.…