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Show CONTRACT UPHELD. Insurance Companies Can Enforce Anti-Suicide Clause. Kansas City, Mo., Xov. In a decision in the l"nitcd States court here today Judge John F. Phillips has held that insurance in-surance companies may enforce the anti-suicide anti-suicide clause, which was previously entered en-tered into by the insured. The decision was in the case of James Whitfield, a well known newsoaper sporting sport-ing editor, who kllied himself. Whitfield insured for $5.0M. receiving a policy tnnt contained a clause specifying that J.i"! only should be recovered in case of suicide. sui-cide. Although the statutes of Missouri declare that insurance companies may not make suicide a defense in refusing to pay a policy. Judge Phillips held that "aj the pleading of the contract in question, voluntarily entered into by the parties, goes merely to the question of the amount of the recovery, and not to defeat a recovery, my conclusion is that the plaintiff is onh- entitled to recover the sum of $300." |