Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Jenkins

SEBRING, J.:

Appellee sued on the accident features of two policies of insurance which insured her son, Howard K. Jenkins, against death sustained through external, violent and accidental means, not contributed to directly or indirectly, or wholly or partly, by disease or bodily or mental infirmity. Verdict was for appellee. The appellant appeals.

Howark K. Jenkins was the owner of a comparatively new automobile. On August 2, 1941, he was driving the car south along an asphalt highway, at about 6 o’clock in the evening. The automobile suddenly left the highway, struck a tree 24 paces from the…