Spaunhorst v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.

FAR1S, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as the beneficiary in a policy of accident insurance, issued by the appellee on the life of one Louis C. T. Spaunhorst, brought suit thereon to recover the sum of $5,000, on the theory that the conceded death of the insured therein had been caused by injuries accidentally incurred. More accurately speaking, the contract of insurance was against death from any cause, but in the event that death was caused by accident, as this word was defined and limited in the policy, double indemnity, to wit, $10,000 was to be paid to the beneficiary. The so-called principal…