Aguida E. Johnson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that nothing in the record suggested that the decedent’s “acts, obviously well adapted to self destruction, were not so intended”
• upholding summary judgment where plaintiff-appellant's \only basis of judgment concerning the mental state of the insured when he killed himself is the opinion of one psychiatrist who never observed the insured.\
• “[A] deranged person can believe that he is immortal, or that fuel oil is water, or, on some other irrational basis, that saturating his clothes with fuel oil and applying a lighted match will not kill him.”
• relying on a decedent’s actions to establish intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).