Reed v. Home State Life Ins. Co.

This is an action to recover under the double indemnity provision of a policy of life insurance.

Plaintiff below has appealed from an adverse judgment entered on sustaining demurrer to her petition.

According to the petition the policy was issued in 1930, and the insured was killed in a commercial aeroplane accident in 1937 while engaged as a copilot. The principal amount, or face, of the policy was immediately paid to plaintiff as beneficiary, but the defendant insurance company denied liability under the double indemnity feature.

Primarily, the policy is one of ordinary life in the face amount…