Life & Casualty Insurance Co. of Tennessee v. Jones

DAN M. GRIFFITH, Special Commissioner.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether judgment against the appellant upon an accident insurance policy, pronounced pursuant to a jury finding that the appellee’s decedent met his death by accidental means, is erroneous as a matter of law.

The appellant, Life & Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee, insured the life of the decedent, Steve Jones, against death by accidental means. On the night of February 6, 1966, while the decedent was attempting to enter the apartment of his former wife, he was shot by her and killed. The insurance…