Sherman v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance

1 Reported in 255 N.W. 113. The plaintiff as beneficiary brought suit on a policy of insurance upon the life of Henry Wallis Sherman, her husband, who disappeared about four months after taking out the policy and paying the first annual premium thereon. The defendant denied that the insured was dead and also alleged that the cause of action set forth in the complaint accrued more than six years before its commencement. The plaintiff had a verdict, and the defendant has appealed from an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

The policy of insurance…