Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc. v. Cooper

CODY, Justice.

This is a suit on a life certificate issued by appellant on the life of G. F. Cooper in 1919 for the benefit of appellee, the insured’s wife. To establish the insured’s death appellee, plaintiff below, depended upon the presumption of death. The last known home of the insured was in Nacog-doches County where the insured disappeared on August 8, 1933, and he has been unheard of for seven successive years from the date of his disappearance. He was forty-nine years old at the time he disappeared, and there was some evidence that he was not in good health. He had a wife, and also a…