Kentucky Central Life & Accident Insurance v. Burrs

Opinion op the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

In October, 1922, the Kentucky Central Life & Accident Insurance Company issued to Arthur Burrs, a colored man, a policy of insurance whereby it promised to pay to Sallie A. Burrs, wife of insured and beneficiary named in the policy, the sum of $100 in the event of his death from natural causes, and further agreed to pay the designated beneficiary the sum of $2,000 in the event of his death resulting directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent, and accidental means. It provided, however, that the accidental death…