Agen v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Doug-lascounty: Ohaeles Smith, Judge. Action on a life insurance policy. The right to recover turned on whether the assured committed suicide. At the ■close of the evidence counsel for defendant moved the court for the direction of a verdict, which was denied. There was a general verdict for the plaintiff, and a motion made and denied to set the same aside because not warranted by the evidence and for other reasons.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Doug-lascounty: Ohaeles Smith, Judge. Action on a life insurance policy. The right to recover turned on whether the assured committed suicide. At the ■close of the evidence counsel for defendant moved the court for the direction of a verdict, which was denied. There was a general verdict for the plaintiff, and a motion made and denied to set the same aside because not warranted by the evidence and for other reasons. The appeal is from the judgment rendered on the verdict in plaintiff’s favor.
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 7, 1899:
Marshall, J.
As we view the record on this appeal, a decision of the question of whether the evidence warrants *219the verdict is all that is required. Such evidence is nearly all circumstantial. The undisputed facts are substantially as follows:
The deceased, Clarence S. Griffin, at the time of his death, resided with his family, consisting of his wife and stepdaughter four and one-half years of age, in the second story of a dwelling house in the city of Superior, Wisconsin, which was occupied on the first floor, partly by William Butler and family…
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