Pippin v. Mutual Life Insurance

Pannell, Judge.

Plaintiff in error here, and plaintiff in the court below, Elizabeth M. Pippin, brought an action against the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, as beneficiary named in the life insurance policy issued on the life of plaintiff’s mother, Mary Morrison, seeking to recover double indemnity for accidental death. The policy sued upon contained the following provisions: “The double indemnity will be payable upon receipt of due proof i¡hat the insured died as a direct result of bodily injuiy effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means, independently and…