Gyulai v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The plaintiff below and appellee herein sued to recover from the defendant insurance company the additional “Accidental Death Benefit” of $1,000 it had agreed by its insurance contract upon the life of her husband, Vincent Gyulai, to pay “upon receipt of due proof” that his death, which occurred on October 5, 1936, “resulted” from a “bodily injury” sustained, within the preceding ninety days, “solely through external, violent and accidental means.” The defense was that the insured’s death “resulted from disease or bodily infirmity.” The trial of this issue on January…