Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Plumstead

Russell, Judge.

This court has twice held in cases involving accidental death clauses in insurance policies where the defense of suicide was urged, that the presumption of fact against suicide disappeared from the case, and the Supreme Court has twice reversed the holding. Templeton v. Kennesaw Life &c. Ins. Co., 216 Ga. 770 (119 SE2d 549); Belch v. Gulf Life Ins. *633Co., 219 Ga. 823 (136 SE2d 351). In Belch, among the facts stated as necessary to be considered in raising an inference contrary to that of suicide, is whether the deceased is a person who is likely to be joking rather than serious,…