Bothmann v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This case was decided by the Saint Louis Court of Appeals (231 S. W. 1007) and certified to this court on the ground that the decision of that court was in conflict with a decision of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in case of Ross v. Capitol Life Insurance Company, 205 Mo. App. 243.

The suit is on a policy of life insurance by Emma Bothmann, beneficiary and widow of William Bothmann, the insured. The opinion of the Saint Louis Court of Appeals is very lucid and exhaustive and we take the liberty of quoting from it some of the facts there summarized from the record.

“Defendant, a life…