Aetna Life Insurance v. Wepfer
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Howard Circuit Court; Jefferson T. Cowling, Judge; The verdict is against the evidence. The great preponderance shows a case of suicide and not of external, violent and accidental injury. The case falls squarely within the-rule in 95 Ark. 456. It is entirely different from 128 Ark. 155. See also, DeCosta Modern Surgery, 1914. All the physical facts point to suicide conclusively. The verdict is supported ‘ by the evidence.
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Appeal from Howard Circuit Court; Jefferson T. Cowling, Judge; The verdict is against the evidence. The great preponderance shows a case of suicide and not of external, violent and accidental injury. The case falls squarely within the-rule in 95 Ark. 456. It is entirely different from 128 Ark. 155. See also, DeCosta Modern Surgery, 1914. All the physical facts point to suicide conclusively. The verdict is supported ‘ by the evidence. The presumption is against suicide and the jury found against that theory. 131 Ark. 419; 25 Ark. 474. The verdict should not be disturbed. 31 Id. 163; 22 Id.…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCULLOCH, C. J.
This is an action on a policy of insurance against death or other bodily injury ‘ ‘ effected through external, violent and accidental means.” There was a judgment below in favor of the plaintiff, upon the verdict of the trial jury, and the defendant has appealed.
The only defense tendered by tlie answer was that the deceased came to his death by his own suicidal act. The dead body of William Wepfer, the party named in the policy, was found in his room at a boarding house in á small town in Arkansas with a bullet wound through the body extending from a point a little above the left nipple to a…
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