Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. Lightsey

SOPER, District Judge.

This action at law was brought to re>eover the sum of $5,000 under the provision for double indemnity in a life insurance policy upon the life of Jacob Calvin Lightsey. The policy provided for the payment of $5,-000 to the wife of the insured upon receipt of due proof of death, and for the payment of the sum of $10,000 if the death of the insured should result, directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means.

The insured died on August- 16,' 1928. Proofs of death were submitted, and the sum…