Ash v. Mutual Life Insurance

The plaintiff brings this action to recover double indemnity on a policy of insurance requiring the defendant to pay such double indemnity only if “ Death resulted directly from bodily injuries independently and exclusively of all other causes, and that such bodily injury was effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, provided, however, that this double indemnity shall not be payable in the event of the insured’s death directly or indirectly from bodily or mental infirmity or disease of any sort.”

*228The plaintiff claimed that the food vomited by the insured blocked his air…