FERRAND v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

No. 9726.

69 F.2d 159 (1934)

FERRAND v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. London, of St., Louis, Mo. (W. H. Saunders and Leahy, Saunders & Walther, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

James C. Jones, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo. (James C. Jones, Lon O. Hocker, and William O. Reeder, all of St. Louis, Mo., Louis H. Cooke, of New York City, and Jones, Hocker, Sullivan, Gladney & Reeder, of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee.

Before STONE, SANBORN, and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges.


STONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an action by beneficiary of a life insurance policy to recover double indemnity on account of accidental death. From a judgment on verdict favoring defendant, plaintiff appeals.

While a number of points are argued by the parties, all of them resolve into three propositions, as follows: I, That the incontestable clause in the policy prevented the defense of suicide; II, that a Missouri statute prevents the same defense; and III...

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