Beers

This action was instituted by the plaintiff to recover on a life insurance policy for $1,000, issued by defendant to Nellie L. Beers, daughter of the plaintiff, and in which policy the latter was the named beneficiary.

The cause was tried before a jury and a verdict returned in favor of plaintiff. Judgment was entered accordingly, from which the defendant prosecutes this appeal in conformity with the provisions of section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

While complaint is made of certain rulings, involving the question whether certain evidence was or was not admissible, and also the legal integrity of the action of the court in allowing and disallowing certain proffered instructions to the jury is challenged, the point the most vigorously urged is that for the verdict and the judgment no claim can justly be made that they derive substantial support from the evidence.

It appears that on the third day of November, 1925, the defendant issued a policy of insurance on the life of Nellie L. Beers in and for the sum of $1,000, to run for a period of twenty years, in consideration of the annual payment by said Nellie L. Beers (to be referred to hereinafter as Miss Beers or “the…