Scheiner v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action to recover the proceeds of an accident policy. The policy insured decedent against the results of bodily injuries sustained directly and independently of all other causes by violent and accidental means. The policy excluded the risk of suicide while sane or insane or of death from any physical infirmity. Death resulted from the taking by decedent of a large quantity of amytal in both tablet and liquid form on the night of June 26, 1931. He was found dead the next morning. He was in the habit of taking amytal to make himself sleep. In no event should more than two tablets be…