Bertschinger v. New York Life Insurance

The defendant, New York Life Insurance Company, has appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action upon a policy of life insurance which provided for payment to the plaintiff, the beneficiary therein, of double the face of the policy in event of the death of the insured resulting directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause. The insured, the plaintiff’s husband, came to his death by drowning while the policy was in effect. The company paid the plaintiff the face of the policy, $5,000, but…