Life & Casualty Insurance v. Daniel

*333This action was instituted by Kathleen V. Daniel, plaintiff, against the defendant, Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee, to recover the sum of $2,000 as the beneficiary under an accident policy issued by the defendant insuring Jesse M. Daniel for loss of life by “drowning or bodily injury effected solely through violent, external and accidental means and if such drowning or bodily injury is the direct, independent and proximate cause of death”. The policy also provided, in an exclusion, reduction and limitation clause, that death caused “from self-destruction, while sane or…