Bell v. State Life Insurance

This case comes from the Court of Appeals on writ of certiorari, and, as stated by that court, “was a suit on a policy of . life insurance for the recovery of the disputed double indemnity provided for under one of its clauses, and which was to be paid in all cases where it should be shown that the death of the assured resulted from ‘ bodily injury sustained and effected directly through external, violent, and accidental means, exclusively and independently of all other causes/ The petition, which was not demurred to, alleged that * the insured was a physician by profession; and on or about…