89 Kan. 634 | Kan. | 1913
Action by appellee to recover $2000 on a policy of insurance issued by appellant on the life of Marion R. Heath. The policy contained a provision that if death occurred by suicide within two years, whether sane or insáne, the only liability of the insurer would be the amount of premiums which had been paid. His death did occur within that time and resulted from a .cutting of his throat. In the action the only substantial controversy was whether or not Heath had taken his own life. Testimony was offered of a motive and circumstances strongly tending to show that he committed suicide, and on the other hand testimony that he could not have inflicted the wound himself and that within a few hours of his death two persons threatened to kill him and that they had motives that might have induced such an act. The jury returned a verdict in
In the absence of testimony showing insanity rulings of the court relating to that question are not material. The objections to rulings excluding testimony are not available, as the testimony was not produced on the motion for a new trial. (Civ. Code, § 307.) Objections were made to rulings in the instructions, but the case appears to have been fairly submitted to the jury and the special finding returned has rendered some of the rulings unimportant.
The judgment is affirmed.