McGarity v. New York Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

In this case the sole question — purely a factual one— is whether the death of William J. McGarity, Jr., resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause, and not from physical or mental infirmity or directly or indirectly from illness or disease of any kind.

The action is brought by McGarity’s executors on two policies of insurance issued to him by defendant company. These policies insured his life in the aggregate sum of $15,000 and that amount was paid by defendant,…