Hall v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge C. C. Featherstone, Acting Associate Justice.

The parties will be designated as plaintiff and defendant.

Only a brief statement of the facts is necessary.

The action is upon an accident policy held by Jasper Hall, who, it is alleged, took carbolic acid, through mistake, and died as the result thereof, August 24, 1928. The company declined to pay, and suit was brought, by the plaintiff, the beneficiary, on August 20, 1930. The defendant contested on the grounds: (1) That the insured suicided; (2) that he took the poison while in a drunken…