Ferril v. Kansas City Life Insurance

This is an action on a $10,000 insurance policy on the life of Clifford Hix, payable to his estate. Plaintiff, his wife, sued as executrix named in his will. The verdict was for plaintiff for $10,443, and defendant has appealed from the judgment entered.

Defendant contends that there was no substantial evidence that Hix died on May 6, 1927 (as alleged by plaintiff), or at any time while the policy was in force (it was paid up to June 25, 1927), and that its demurrer to the evidence, at the close of the case, should have been sustained. Hix disappeared on the night of May 6, 1927, and had not…