Wyckoff v. Mutual Life Insurance

Action by Bess S. Wyckoff against the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York to recover double indemnity under a life policy. The jury, by its verdict, found that insured had committed suicide, and from the judgment denying recovery of double liability, plaintiff appeals.

REVERSED. The beneficiary brought this action to recover under the double indemnity provision of a life insurance policy issued by the defendant company, alleging that the insured came to his death from "bodily injury effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means", to-wit, by being drowned in the Snake…