Pilot Life Insurance Company v. Jimmie Fay Butler Boone

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for $20,000 entered upon the verdict of a jury in a suit on two policies whereby appellant insured the life of appellee’s husband, Captain Harry C. Boone. The sole issue was whether Captain Boone committed suicide.

Each of the policies was in the amount of $10,000; they were issued respectively on May 22, 1953 and October 1, 1954; each contained the following provision:

“7. Suicide. — If the Insured shall commit suicide, while sane or insane, within two years from the date hereof, this Policy shall be null and void, except for an amount equal…