Carson v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

The issue in the present case is whether the insured died as the direct result, independently of all other causes, of bodily injuries caused solely by external, violent, and accidental means and not as the result of self-destruction.

Plaintiff relies upon three assigned errors as grounds for reversal of the judgment below.

*108The first assignment of error is directed to the refusal of the trial court to give the following special charge requested by plaintiff:

“Members of the jury: I charge you that if you find from the preponderance of the evidence that James Carson met his death by external and…