Vaughan v. Gulf Life Insurance Co.

Mrs. Frances Vanghan, as beneficiary, brought suit against Gulf Life Insurance Company, to recover under a double-indemnity accident-insurance policy issued to her son, Clyde Albert Yaughan, on January 6, 1939, alleging, that on November 11, 1939, the insured, while about to enter one of his employer’s buildings to obtain his work clothes and pursue his duties as a laborer, ignorantly, unintentionally, and accidentally inhaled poisonous gas, mixed with the air about him, which poisonous gas or lethal chemical substance had escaped from a pipe that led from one tank to another on the premises…