Kellog v. California Western States Life Ins. Co.

PRATT, Chief Justice.

In this action, plaintiff, as widow of the deceased seeks to recover double indemnity under the terms of an insurance policy issued upon the life of the deceased,, the latter having died as the result of post-operative surgical shock. The appropriate phrases of the policy read as follows:

“Upon receipt of due proof * * * that the death of the insured occurred * * * as the result of * * * bodily injury, * * * which is effected exclusively and wholly, by external, violent and accidental means, of which there is a visible contusion or wound on the body * * * and that such…