Knights Templars' & Masons' Life Indemnity Co. v. Jarman
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOE THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a judgment of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Missouri, overruling the de-fence of suicide to an action upon a policy of life insurance, and awarding plaintiff judgment for the amount of the policy and assessments thereon.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOE THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a judgment of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Missouri, overruling the de-fence of suicide to an action upon a policy of life insurance, and awarding plaintiff judgment for the amount of the policy and assessments thereon. An agreed statement of facts shows defendant to be an Illinois corporation, organized “ for the purpose of furnishing life indemnity or pecuniary benefits to widows,” etc.; and that on October 19, 1885,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case turns principally upon the applicability to the policy in question of sec. 5982 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, afterwards sec. 5855, Rev. Stat. 1889, (hereinafter termed the'suicide statute,) which was in force in 1885, when this policy was written. The section is as follows:
“ In all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued by any company doing business in this State, it shall be no de-fence that the insured committed suicide, unless it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the court or jury trying the cause, that the insured contemplated suicide at…
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