CONNECTICUT MUT. LIFE INS. CO. v. LANAHAN

No. 8265.

112 F.2d 375 (1940)

CONNECTICUT MUT. LIFE INS. CO. v. LANAHAN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Mandate Amended June 27, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. Shaw and W. J. Weipert, both of Detroit, Mich. (Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellant.

James R. Thomas, of Detroit, Mich. (James R. Thomas and Marshall F. Troester, both of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, SIMONS, and ARANT, Circuit Judges.


Mandate Amended June 27, 1940. See 113 F.2d 935.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, an insurer, challenges a judgment entered against it upon a jury's verdict of liability under an insurance policy issued on the life of William C. Lanahan, deceased husband of the appellee. The defense was suicide, the defendant counting upon a provision of the policy that if the insured died by self-destruction within two years from the...

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