New York Life Ins. Co. v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
EDGÉRTON, Associate Justice, dissenting in part.
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Associate Justice.
This is an action brought on a life insurance policy to recover double indemnity under a provision making such double indemnity payable if the death of the insured resulted from “bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental causes.” 1
The insured was killed while a patient at Walter Reed General Hospital in Wash*299ington, D. C., by a fall down a stair well which was protected by a railing. The fall occurred at night and there were no witnesses. The circumstances indicated possible suicide. The jury gave a verdict for double indemnity under the…
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