Edwards v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Under the terms of two policies of group insurance issued by the appellee upon the lives of employees of the Standard Oil Company, Goodloe B. Edwards was insured in the sum of $3,000. Edwards disappeared and has not been heard from since March 30 or 31, 1931. His son as beneficiary prosecutes this suit to recover the insurance upon the ground of presumed death through an absence of seven years, but his right to recover rests upon the sufficiency of the evidence to show that the insured committed suicide at the beginning of the term, that…