Schaberg v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co.

Full title: Lizzie Schaberg, Appellee, v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company…

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: Apr 2, 1940

304 Ill. App. 576 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

26 N.E.2d 733

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,688. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed April 2, 1940

INSURANCE, § 498.4^_ — disappearance, sufficiency of evidence. Lower court properly entered judgment for plaintiff in action upon life insurance policy, where evidence showed that insured disappeared from home of beneficiary, his sister, his last known abode, he had not communicated with friends or relatives, and inquiry had been made without obtaining information as to whether he was alive.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Municipal Court of Chicago; Hon. JOHN V. McCORMICK, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in second division, first district, this court at April term, 1939.

Hoyne, O'Connor Rubinkam, for appellant;

Nathaniel Rubinkam and James C. Rich, of counsel; Sol R. Friedman and I.S. Friedman, for appellee.

Opinion by JUSTICE FRIEND.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed April 2, 1940.