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AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. McLAUGHLIN

No. A-9838.

380 S.W.2d 101 (1964)

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Winifred H. McLAUGHLIN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fouts, Moore, Williams & Caldwell, T. J. Caldwell, Jr., Houston, for petitioner.

Bracewell, Reynolds & Patterson, William H. White, Houston, for respondent.

NORVELL, Justice.

This is a suit upon an accident insurance contract which contained a clause excluding any loss caused by "suicide, sane or insane."1 The controlling issue is whether Texas does or should follow the majority rule as to the construction of the suicide clause of the policy as opposed to the Kentucky or minority rule.

The older forms of insurance contracts contained exclusions...

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