MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
This case turns principally upon the applicability to the policy in question of sec. 5982 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1879, afterwards sec. 5855, Rev. Stat. 1889, (hereinafter termed the suicide statute,) which was in force in 1885, when this policy was written. The section is as follows:
"In all suits upon policies of insurance on life hereafter issued...
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