Continental Casualty Co. v. Pittman

Mrs. Caroline Pittman, the mother of Herbert Pittman, recovered on the trial of a suit upon a policy of accident insurance issued by the Continental Casualty Company. One clause of the policy provides for payments of indemnities set forth, for bodily injuries caused through external, violent, and purely accidental means; and another clause reads as follows: “If sunstroke, freezing, or hydrophobia, due in either case to external, violent, and accidental means, shall result, independently of all other causes, in the death of the insured within ninety days from date of exposure or infection, the…