Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Williams

The appellee instituted this action against the appellant, alleging in her complaint that Leroy Williams, now presumed to be dead, purchased from the appellant three policies of life insurance in which he insured his own life and named appellee as beneficiary; the numbers, dates and amounts of piolicies are set forth, and then appellee alleges that in September, 1923, while a bona fide resident of Pulaski county, Arkansas, the deceased disappeared, and has since that date absented himself beyond the limits of the state; that appellee has made diligent inquiry and search among his friends and…