Johnson v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.

This is an action to recover under the double indemnity provisions of a life insurance policy issued by the defendant insurance company, respondent herein, insuring a man named Wilson, since deceased, and designating the latter’s wife as beneficiary, who assigned her claim thereunder to the plaintiff appellant herein, Pertinent provisions of the policy declare: “If the death of the insured ... results, directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injuries effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, ... and if such injuries are evidenced by a visible…