Continental Casualty Co. v. Bruden

This is a suit by appellee, as administrator of the estate of Columbus Joel, deceased, to recover under an accident policy issued by appellant insurance company for the accidental death of Joel, the insured, which was alleged to have been caused by heat prostration.

The policy provides that “the insurance given by this policy is against loss of life (suicide or self-destruction while sane or insane not included), limb, limbs, sight or time resulting from a personal bodily injury which is effected solely and independently of all other causes by the happening of an external, violent and purely…