Jovich v. Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees

On April 1, 1925, defendant insurance company issued an accident insurance policy on the life of Mike Jovich, plaintiff being the designated beneficiary. The policy contained a provision for payment of $2,000 in event of death of the insured resulting directly and exclusively from bodily injury sustained solely through external, violent, and accidental means (excluding suicide, sane or insane) during the life of the policy. The policy remained in force when the insured died on June 19, 1933, as the result of a gunshot wound. By answer defendant denied that the insured came to his death by…