| Medical Society of the State of West Virginia - 1901 - 808 pages
...States Supreme Court has laid down this rule : "If the assured, being in possession of his reasonable faculties, from anger, pride, jealousy or a desire...If the death is caused by the voluntary act of the insured, he knowing '.hat his death will be the result of his act, but when his reasoning faculties... | |
| 1873 - 532 pages
...standard mny be different. We hold the rule on the question before us to be this : If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning...his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can bn no recovery. If the death is caused by the voluntary act Hl the assured, he knowing and intending... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - 1884 - 792 pages
...United States in Life Ins. Company \. Terry, 15 Wall., 584, as follows : "If the assured, being in possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, from...life, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso atttaches and there can be no recovery. " If the death is caused by the voluntary act of the assured,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1873 - 740 pages
...applied in case of the death of the party by such means, are these, that is to say: If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning...escape from the ills of life, intentionally takes bis own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery. If the death is caused by the voluntary... | |
| 1873 - 960 pages
...similar principle must control the present case, although the standard may be different. If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning...desire to escape from the ills of life, intentionally taken his own life, the proviso attaches, aud there can be no recovery. If the death is caused by the... | |
| 1873 - 828 pages
...or die by his own hand, and the assured being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery upon the policy. But if the death is caused by the voluntary act of the assured, he knowing and intending... | |
| George Bliss - 1874 - 826 pages
...to be this: If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning faculties, from auger, pride, jealousy, or a desire to escape from the ills...own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recoverv. If the death is caused bv the vol4/ >' ing faculties are so far impaired that he is not able... | |
| 1876 - 972 pages
...the rule in this language : " We hold the rule on the question before us to be this : If the assured, being in the possession of his ordinary reasoning...anger, pride, jealousy, or a desire to escape from the ills.of life, intentionally takes his own life, the proviso attaches, and there can be no recovery.... | |
| 1878 - 680 pages
...then the company is not liable, because he died by his own baud within the meaning of the policy. " If the insured, being in the possession of his ordinary...the proviso attaches and there can be no recovery; that is, he did die by his own act. If the death is caused by the voluntary act of the assured, he... | |
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