Independent Life Accident Ins. Co. v. McGehee

COLEMAN, Justice.

The defendant appeals from judgment for plaintiff in action at law on a policy insuring against bodily injury resulting in death through external, violent, and accidental means.1

It appears to be agreed that the death of insured resulted from a gunshot wound. There was no eyewitness. A fair statement of the circumstances attending the shooting, as we understand it, is as follows :

Insured was a young, unmarried man under twenty-one years of age residing with his parent's. His health was good. He had been employed off and on as a filling station attendant. On the morning he was…