Price-Williams v. New York Life Ins.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is an action under the double-indemnity clauses of three life insurance policies, which bound the Company to pay twice the face amount of each policy if death of the insured resulted, directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injuries effected solely through violent, external, and accidental means; provided, double indemnity was not payable if death resulted from the taking of poison, whether voluntary or otherwise.

The sole question for our decision upon this appeal is presented by the action of the court below in peremptorily directing the jury to…