White v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

Plaintiff’s intestate was her son, a school boy fifteen and one-half years of age. He was shot and killed by a bullet from a revolver shot by Howard Yan Riper. The defendant company insured the boy’s life under policies, which provided for certain payments at death and also for increased payments if the death should result from “external, violent and accidental means.” The ordinary death amount was paid. Plaintiff sued to recover the insurance for accidental, violent death. It was conceded that the death was violent and from external means. The…