New York Life Ins. Co. v. Ross

HICKENLOOPER, District Judge.

This is an action upon a policy of life insurance containing provision for double indemnity in the event that the “death of the insured resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause,” The insured met his death on the morning of July 7,1926, when his automobile left the road and ran over the steep bank of a canal, adjacent the point where the Mifllin road crosses the canal by a steel bridge. Oilier pertinent facts are stated in the opinion of this court in International Life…