Streeter v. Western Union Mutual Life & Accident Society

The policy of insurance introduced in evidence in this cause contained the following clause:

“ If the insured shall, * * within three years of the date of this policy, die by his own hand, sane or insane, * * this policy shall become and be null and void.”

Within three years from the date of the policy the insured died from the effects of a pistol-shot wound inflicted upon himself. The evidence tended to prove that when he shot himself he was insane. Witnesses expressed the opinion that his mental condition was such that he was unable to control any of his physical actions that might have been…