Provident Life Accident Ins. Co. v. Watkins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

In February, 1932, the appellant, the Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company, insured the life of Robert C. Watkins, naming therein as beneficiary his wife, Lola Watkins, appellee herein. The pertinent insuring clauses of the policy insure against “the effects resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes, from bodily injuries sustained during the life of this policy, solely through external, violent and accidental means,” and further providing that, “if the death of the insured shall result solely from such injury and within 120…