Gantt v. American National Insurance

This case is in this court upon the grant of a certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in Gantt v. American National Insurance Co., 41 Ga. App. 627 (154 S. E. 213). The Court of Appeals held that the presumption of death, arising where persons are away from their usual places of abode and have not been heard of for seven years, relates only to the fact of death, and that whenever the time of death is material in any case, it must be established by distinct proof, and can not he established by such presumption. This principle had been previously announced by the Court of…