Yowell v. Occidental Life Ins. Co.

BAKER, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this action was the beneficiary under a policy of insurance written by the defendant, an insurance company, on the 25th day of February, 1921, by the terms of which the defendant insured one Zella Andrew, sister of the plaintiff, “against loss resulting directly, exclusively and independently of all other causes from bodily injury sustained during the life of this policy solely through external, violent and accidental means (suicide, sane or insane, or any attempt thereat, sane or insane, excepted),” and undertook to pay to said beneficiary the sum of…