Provident Life Acc. Ins. Co. v. Downey

BOULDIN, Justice.

The action was upon a policy of insurance to recover the benefit payable for the loss of the entire sight of one eye, resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes from bodily injury sustained solely through external, violent and accidental means. The policy had a further clause stipulating that disability due partly to accidental injury and partly to disease or bodily infirmity was not within the coverage of the policy.

Appellant earnestly insists it was entitled to the affirmative charge, with hypothesis. The refusal of such charge presents the main question in the…