Kansas City Life Insurance v. Marshall

As the beneficiary in a life insurance policy, issued by the defendant company on the life of James W. Marshall, plaintiff’s husband, the jury’s verdict was for the plaintiff in the sum of $932.57, on which judgment was rendered and the defendant is here with its writ of error.

In the opening of its brief defendant says that the case presents the question as to whether the beneficiary of a life insurance policy may recover thereon, in what is commonly called a “disappearance case,” when the policy has expired because of the nonpayment of premiums a few months less than five years after such…