Lee v. New York Life Insurance

The defendant issued, in the State of Maine, a policy of insurance upon the life of one Francis C. Lee of Maine, in which the plaintiff was named the beneficiary, and which provided for the payment of double indemnity upon *371proof “that the death of the insured resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause.” The insured on September 6, 1940, was in apparent good health and appeared to be normal in every way except that he had been suffering since December, 1939, from a hernia, for the correction of which…