National Life Insurance Co. of the United States v. Coughlin

The parties plaintiff and defendant were reversed in the trial court and for convenience are hereinafter referred to as they appeared there.

One Charles Goldtrap carried an accident and health policy in defendant company which provided for payment of $300.00 in case of death and designated May Coughlin as the beneficiary. To recover thereon this suit was brought and from a judgment on the pleadings in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.

One clause of the policy reads:

“This Policy does not cover injuries, fatal or non-fatal, * * * which are caused wholly or in part by the intentional act…