Buel v. Kansas City Life Ins. Co.

OPINION OP THE COURT

■WATSON, J.

Appellee was the beneficiary, in an in-

surance policy issued by appellant upon the life of appellee’s son, in the sum of $2,000. Attached to the policy was a double indemnity rider, providing that—

"If * * * the death of the insured. * * * should result from the effects of an injury, through external, violent and accidental cause, * * * the amount payable herein will be four thousand dollars.”

As to the cause of death, the trial court found as follows:

"(4) That the said Ralph E. Buell died on the 26th day of Sepember, 1922; that his death was the result of what is…