Brown

This is an action based upan a benefit certificate issued by the defendant to the husband of the plaintiff, by the terms of which, upon the husband’s death, the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $2,000.

The plaintiff’s husband, Willis F. Brown, disappeared in October, 1900, and had not been heard from for more than seven years when this action was brought. In the trial court judgment went for the plaintiff, and this appeal, according to the notice thereof, is from the judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The appeal from the judgment is based on the sole ground that the evidence does not support the findings. The only record on appeal, however, is the judgment-roll, i. el, the complaint, answer, findings and judgment. No evidence has been brought up, and the transcript also fails to show that any motion for a new trial was ever made. In this condition of the record we are bound to assume that the evidence was sufficient to support the findings. And upon examination of the findings it is apparent that they support the "judgment.

Giving full force to the authorities cited to sustain appellant’s position, that in addition to the absence of…