Scott v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

Mr. Chiee Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the beneficiary of a life insurance policy to recover the additional indemnity provided by that contract in case the death of the insured resulted “directly and independently of all other causes,” “solely through external, violent, and accidental means.”

The declaration contains the following averment of the circumstances of the insured’s death:

“The plaintiff further alleges that on or about July 24, 1934, the deceased, John Clayton, the insured under the above described insurance policy, suffered death from the…