Landress v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance

Mk. Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes here on certiorari to review a judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 65 F. (2d) 232, which affirmed a judgment of the district court, denying recovery on two policies of accident insurance. Separate suits brought by petitioner, the beneficiary of the policies under which her deceased husband was the insured, were consolidated and were heard and decided on demurrer. The insured, while playing golf, suffered a sunstroke, from which he died. Pétitioner sought recov*495ery of amounts stipulated, in one policy, to be…