Spicer v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] Action by Leslie William Spicer and another, minors, by Mary E. Crandall, guardian, against Benefit Association of Railway Employees, a corporation, on a policy of accident insurance which promised to pay the beneficiaries of whom plaintiff was the guardian, $2,700 in the event Leslie V. Spicer lost his life "solely through external, violent, and accidental means". The answer denied that insured's death had occurred in that manner. From a judgment for plaintiff,…