Nichols v. New York Life Insurance

Plaintiff secured a verdict and judgment for $2,000, with interest and costs, against defendant based upon a policy of insurance. Defendant’s motion for new trial was denied and it appealed from the judgment.

The policy of insurance was issued on January 20, 1926, and insured the life of Maude B. Nichols, plaintiff’s wife. By the terms of the policy, $1,000 became payable to plaintiff, beneficiary, if death resulted from natural causes, and $2,000 if death resulted “directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental…