Legal Opinion
Gregory v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1935No. 10248PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, as plaintiffs below, brought this action to recover on three life insurance policies written by appellee on the life of William N. Gregory. These policies provided for the payment of double indemnity in the event death resulted directly from bodily injury received independently and exclusively of all other causes, and that such bodily injury was effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means.
The insured was killed in an airplane crash, in the state of Illinois, about thirty miles from the city of St. Louis, Mo., on April 18, 1933. The…
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