Court Opinion

ID: 8825151
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 15:45:14.835604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:04:45.304938
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Niehaus delivered the opinion of the court. Abstract of the Decision. 1. Appeal and error, § 1398*—when findings of jury approved by chancellor not disturbed. Where, in a chancery case, it is not apparent from the record that error has been committed by the chancellor in sustaining the findings of fact of a jury, to which such issues have been submitted in an advisory capacity, such findings will not be disturbed on appeal. 2. Cancellation of instbtjments, § 35*—when evidence sufficient to show mental capacity. In a suit in equity to set aside a change of beneficiaries of life insurance policies made on request of the insured, on the ground that he did not have sufficient mental capacity at the time, evidence held sufficient to sustain a finding that he had such capacity. 3. Cancellation of instruments, § 34*—when evidence as to conduct of beneficiary of policy inadmissible. In a suit in equity to set aside the substitution, as beneficiary, by the insured of one designated by him, in his request for such substitution, as his “fiancee,” where it was claimed by the complainant that such beneficiary was not the insured’s fiancee, evidence that she was playing cards, laughing and having a good time at the time the insured was in a dying condition, held properly excluded, it not being contradictory of anything that had been testified to, and having no bearing on the issues in the case. 4. Instructions, § 120*—when properly refused. An instruction is properly refused where there is no evidence on which to base it.