Rawitzer v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n

This is an action to recover $5,0'00 and interest on a certificate of accident insurance issued by defendant January 8,1910, to Albert H. Rawitzer, father of plaintiffs. The certificate provided for an indemnity of $5,000 in the event that the death of insured resulted from external, violent and accidental means. While the insurance was in force insured died from carbolic acid poisoning, June 18, 1914. In the petition plaintiffs, among other things, alleged: “The said Albert H. Rawitzer was killed by carbolic acid poisoning, through external, violent and accidental means; that he swallowed…