Rippstein v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance

Adams, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

This was an action on a life policy of insurance issued by the defendant to Gottlieb Rippstein insuring bis life in the sum of five thousand dollars, and which, upon his death, before a certain period, was to be paid to his heirs. The plaintiffs sue as his lieirs and allege that be died before the period referred to, in the county of Gasconade. The policy exempts tbe defendant from all liability in ease bis death was occasioned by delirium tremens.

The defendant, in its answer, pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court, on the ground that its…