Waddell v. Prudential Insurance

Plaintiff seeks to recover as the sole beneficiary named in a policy of insurance upon the life of her husband, John Berl Waddell. The insurer is the defendant. The insured suffered a gunshot wound and his death immediately ensued. He died within 2 years from the date of the policy. That fact, and a provision in the policy limiting the insurer’s liability to the amount of the paid premiums in event of death by suicide within such 2-year period, were defensively plead in the first division of defendant’s answer together with the further allegation that the insured did die by suicide. The cause…