Phillips v. Louisiana Equitable Life Insurance

This action was instituted to recover the amount of a policy of insurance on the life oí H. F. Morse, issued on the fourth of October, 1869. Morse died at Abbeville, Louisiana, on the fifteenth of March, 1870.

Proof of his death was made by his widow, and payment was declined, on the grounds that tue proof furnished of the death also proved he had committed suicide, and that the policy excepted liability of the company “if he should die by his own hands.”

The questions presented for solution are new in this State. They are:

*405First — What is the meaning of the exception, “ if he die by his own…