Ryan v. Continental Casualty Co.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellant on a policy issued by the appellee whereby the latter promised to pay to the former a stated sum for the loss of life of Charles J. Ryan, her husband, “resulting from a personal injury which is effected solely and independently of all other causes by the happening of an external, violent and purely accidental event.” The evidence showed as follows: At the time of his death the insured was forty-four years of age. Prior to his assisting in loading ice in a railroad ear on the morning of his death he appeared to be in good health. While…