New York Life Ins. v. Trimble

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The New York Life Insurance Company in 1926 issued a policy of insurance upon the life of Guy H. Trimble by which it agreed to pay $10,000 upon proof of death of the insured, and an additional $10,000, called “double indemnity”, upon proof that death resulted from bodily injury effected solely through “external, violent and accidental cause.” The insured died on Monday, October 13, 1930, of a pistol wound. His mother, the beneficiary named in the poliey, acknowledging payment of $10,000, the face of the policy, but alleging that the death of the insured was caused by the…