McLean v. A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge

This action is brought to recover on a policy of life insurance in which plaintiff is named as beneficiary. Among other defenses set up in the answer is the contention by defendant that there is no sufficient evidence to show that the insured is dead. There is no positive proof of the death of insured, but plaintiff is relying on the presumption of death arising from the fact that the insured has been absent from home and unheard from for a period of seven years. To support this presumption plaintiff proved that the insured left his home in this state during the month of February, 1907, and…