BIGELOW v. BERKSHIRE LIFE INS. CO.


93 U.S. 284 (____)

BIGELOW v. BERKSHIRE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Mr. Thomas Hoyne for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.G. Miller, contra.


MR. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court.

There has been a great diversity of judicial opinion as to whether self-destruction by a man, in a fit of insanity, is within the condition of a life policy, where the words of exemption are that the insured "shall commit suicide," or "shall die by his own hand." But since the decision in Life Ins. Co. v. Terry, 15 Wall. 580, the question is no longer an open one in this...

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