Bryan v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.

On January 14, 1935, the Aetna Life Insurance Company, defendant below, issued to Augustus P. Bryan a policy of life insurance in the sum of $5,000 payable to Gladys Smith Bryan, bis wife. Augustus P. Bryan died January 3, 1936, under circumstances to be related, as the result of a bullet wound in the right temple. the policy contained a provision limiting the liability of the insurer to a return of the premiums paid in case insured should commit suicide within .two years from the date of the issuance of the policy.

The widow, as beneficiary under the policy, filed the original bill herein…