New York Life Ins. Co. v. Gill

The appellee, Mrs. Flora L. Gill, brought an action at law against the New York Life Insurance Company upon an insurance policy for $3000 which provided for double indemnity in case of death by accident, as shall hereafter appear. In the declaration she averred the existence of the insurance policy in force at the time of the death of the insured, Morris Vernon Gill, her husband; and that he came to his death by accident within the terms of the policy; and also averred that because the insurer had in its possession the proofs of death, revealing to it the cause thereof, it owed plaintiff…