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  "name": "SUMMERFORD v. SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Summerford v. Sovereign Camp, W. O. W.",
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    "judges": [
      "SADLER, C. J., and HUDSPETH, BICKLEY, and BRICE, JJ., concur."
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      "SUMMERFORD v. SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W."
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      {
        "text": "ZINN, Justice.\nAppellee recovered a judgment against the appellant in the sum of $1,000 upon a contract of insurance written upon the life of John O. Summerford. From that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.\nThe entire case rests upon the sufficiency -of the eyidence to sustain the verdict of the jury, in that the issue turned upon whether or not the death of Summerford was suicidal or whether he died from causes other than by self-destruction.\nWe have read the facts from every light .as presented by both appellant and appel-lee. It would add nothing to the law to narrate the facts herein at length. From such careful reading of the facts we cannot .account for the conclusion of the jury. Ordinarily, the determination of the jury on such questions is conclusive upon us where the verdict is supported by substantial evidence, and it is only in those cases wherein there is no substantial evidence to support the verdict that the same is set aside on .appeal. In the instant case the irresistible \u25a0conclusion is that Summerford committed .suicide.\nThe facts in this case lead us to the same \u25a0conclusions reached by this court in the case of Skala v. New York Life Ins. Co., 24 N.M. 78, 172 P. 1046, 1047, which statement of Mr. Justice Hanna, who wrote the \u25a0opinion, we can repeat verbatim as being applicable here, to wit: \u201cEvery fact of importance discloses that the insured committed suicide.\u201d\nThe trial court should have sustained appellant\u2019s motion for a directed verdict. In not sustaining such motion, it erred. For the reasons given, the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded, with instructions to proceed in accordance with this opinion.\n\u25a0 It is so ordered.\nSADLER, C. J., and HUDSPETH, BICKLEY, and BRICE, JJ., concur.",
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        "author": "ZINN, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Edwin Mechen*, of Las Cruces, for appellant.",
      "W. C. Whatley, of Las Cruces, for appel-lee."
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    "head_matter": "59 P.(2d) 893\nSUMMERFORD v. SOVEREIGN CAMP, W. O. W.\nNo. 4182.\nSupreme Court of New Mexico.\nJune 29, 1936.\nEdwin Mechen*, of Las Cruces, for appellant.\nW. C. Whatley, of Las Cruces, for appel-lee."
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