KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' INDEMNITY CO. v. JARMAN

No. 48.

187 U.S. 197 (1902)

KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' AND MASONS' LIFE INDEMNITY COMPANY v. JARMAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 8, 1902.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hervey Bryan Hicks and Mr. S.S. Gregory for petitioner.

Mr. Frederick H. Bacon for respondent. Mr. E.M. Harber and Mr. A.G. Knight were with him on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

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...

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