State Life Ins. Co. v. Sullivan

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This is an action brought against appellant insurance company by Adelaide F. Sullivan, the beneficiary in two policies of life insurance for $5,000 each issued by the defendant in 1918 upon the life of her husband, Eugene J.' Sullivan. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $10,000, and judgment followed, from whieh the insurance company appealed.

The principal question involved in the ease is whether or not sufficient proof of death was offered by the appellee to support the finding of the jury to that effect. The appellee relies upon evidence of the…