Pickering v. First Pyramid Life Insurance Co. of America

*185KEITH, Justice.

The appeal is from a take-nothing judgment entered in the beneficiary’s suit to recover accidental death benefits under a policy of life insurance. The case was tried to the court upon an agreed statement of facts which disclosed that the defendant had issued a policy of life insurance upon the life of plaintiff’s husband. The policy provided for a basic payment of $10,000 and an additional $20,000 in the event death resulted from violent and accidental means as defined in the policy.

While the policy was in full force and effect, the insured was on duty as a police officer and…