Pilgrim Health & Life Insurance v. Chism

This was a suit on a life-insurance policy, instituted by the wife of the insured, who was the beneficiary under the policy. The petition shows that the insured disappeared in November, 1928, that the premiums on the policy were paid through April, 1929; that the plaintiff made every effort to locate the insured, but was unable to do so; that in January, 1931, the plaintiff was informed that the insured died in December, 1928; that *122the plaintiff procured from the State vital statistics burean a certificate- of his death; that proof of the death of the insured was then made by her to the…