Murray v. Preferred Accident Insurance

In January, 1921, Robert G. Murray took out a policy with the defendant, The Preferred Accident Insurance Company of New York, naming his mother, . Mary Murray, plaintiff herein, as beneficiary. This policy was for $10,000. He was killed on or about October 14, 1921, while engaged with officers of the law in searching a house on what is known as the “Snyder Farm,” a few miles distant from the city of Council Bluffs. This is the second appeal of this ease, the opinion in the first appeal appearing in 199 Iowa 1195.

At the close of all of the evidence in the case, the defendant first made a…