Starkey Paint Co. v. Springfield Life Insurance

ARNOLD, Judge.

Plaintiff’s first assignment of error is directed to the following instruction given by the trial court:

“Now, members of the jury, I want to instruct you that in a suit to recover upon a policy of life insurance where the Insurance Company contends upon the grounds that the insured’s death was caused by suicide, the burden of proof is upon — once the defendant has presented its evidence relating to the defense of suicide, then the burden of proof is upon the plaintiff to show by the greater weight of the evidence that the death of the insured was caused by external violence or…