O'Brien v. General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corp., Ltd., of Perth

OTIS, District Judge.

Appellant, who was plaintiff in the court below, was beneficiary in a policy of accident insurance issued by appellee August 11, 1926, to one James O’Hara and, in the capacity of beneficiary, brought this suit to recover on the policy. In her petition she alleged that O’Hara was accidentally killed on August 29, 1926, when the policy was in full force and effect. The defense, at least in part, was that O’Hara committed suicide. What the evidence upon that issue was we do not know, since much of the evidence appears to have been omitted from the transcript. Even the policy…