Troutman v. Mutual Life Ins.

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

The district court directed a verdict against appellant, named beneficiary in a policy of insurance issued by appellee upon the life of her deceased husband. Her action was brought to recover double indemnity to be payable “upon receipt of due proof that the insured died as a direct result of bodily injury effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means, in•dependently and exclusively of all other causes, and of which, except in the case of drowning or asphyxiation, there is evidence by a visible contusion or wound on the exterior of the body, and that…