LIFE INSURANCE
CLAIM BARRED BY HOUSE OF LORDS. RULING ON LAW RRELATING TO SUICIDE. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Dismissing Mrs Beresford’s appeal against the judgment of the Appeal Court, the House of Lords held that although an insurance company agreed to pay on life policies for £50,000 after the expiration of a year even if the assured committed suicide while of sound mind, such .a contract could not be enforced, owing to the recognised principle that a man cannot by recourse to law claim benefit from a crime.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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92LIFE INSURANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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