Of Vital Importance to Insurance Companies The decision of the House of Lords on May 9 that a man cannot legally insure himself against deliberate suicide raises a question of importance for the insurance companies and for the public, Major C. W. S. St. John Rowland-son shop himself in a taxi-cab in Pall Mall two or three minutes before policies on nis life would have expired through non-payment of premium. He made the taxi-driver witness of the time, and it had been held that he was sane when he committed the act.
The ruling in Major Rowlandson's case brings to an end a legal fight which has lasted almost two years.
In the original action in the Kinge Bench judgment was given for £43,000 in favour of Mrs. Agnes de la Poor Beresford, niece and administratrix of the major, Central europe.
His Own Crime
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