Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Funderburk

COMBS, Justice.

Appellee was plaintiff and appellant defendant in the trial court.

As an employee of Magnolia Petroleum Company, W. O. Funderburk was insured by the defendant under a group policy which entitled the plaintiff, as his beneficiary, to $1,600 in ease of his death from any cause, the contract providing also for a double indemnity in the event the insured’s death should result “directly and independently of all other causes” from bodily injuries sustained solely through violent, external, and *133“accidental means.” It was further stipulated by way of exception that such double indemnity…