Sulkie v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Appellant filed suit in Superior Court asking the court to declare her son-in-law, one Mark Burrell-Gwydyr, legally dead because of his absence for more than seven (7) years. Appellant was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy on Burrell-Gwy-dyr’s life, and sought a $20,000 judgment (the amount of the policy) against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant offered no direct evidence of the death of the insured but relied solely on the presumption of death created by D.C. Code 1973, § 14-701. The trial court concluded that appellant had not carried her…