Dixon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

This is an action in assumpsit on a certificate of insurance, and the question is whether the evidence was sufficient to warrant the jury in finding that the death of deceased was caused directly and independently of all other causes by accidental means, as required by the provisions of a policy of group insurance under which deceased was insured as an employee of J ones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Defendant has appealed from the judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff, the beneficiary named in the certificate issued to deceased.

The provisions of the group policy 1…