Mutual Life Insurance v. Kelly

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of Baltimore, defendant in the trial court, here seeks reversal of a judgment entered against it and in favor of Blanche Kelly, the beneficiary named in a life policy upon the life of one Harold Farson; and also an additional sum upon an accidental death provision thereof.

The petition avers that the insured was accidentally shot on the 19th of April, 1933, by a trap gun which had been placed bn the inside of a cottage located on the banks of the Muskingum river, and that the insured died as a result thereof.

To this petition the insurer interposed three…