Van Zandt v. . Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co.

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The policy sued upon in this action contained the usual condition that in case the assured should die by his own hand the policy should be void. He took his own life by shooting himself, but the evidence tended strongly to show that he was at the time insane. The court, among other things, submitted to the jury the question whether the assured was at the time of his self-destruction incapable of determining whether the act was right or wrong, and not conscious…