Runyon v. Commonwealth Casualty Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the Morris County Court of Common Pleas by the plaintiff as the beneficiary named in an accident insurance policy issued by the defendant corporation in 1909 to one J. Fred Runyon. One of the provisions of the policy was that the company insured the beneficiary against “the effects of bodily injuries sustained by the insured, or death, caused directly and independently of all other causes by external, violent and accidental means, which bodily injuries, or their effects, shall not be caused wholly or…