Ursaner v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Under the specific terms of the insurance policy, the double indemnity which is here alone in question, was payable only on proof of the insured’s death as the result of bodily injuries through accidental means independently of all other causes and “ that death shall not have been the result of * * * or contributed to, directly or indirectly, or wholly, or partially, by disease, or by bodily * * * infirmity # * *

The court charged, without exception or objection by plaintiff, that the burden of proof was on plaintiff and further charged that before plaintiff could recover the jury “ must find…