Railway Mail Ass'n v. Babbitt

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellee sued as beneficiary of an accident insurance policy issued to her husband in 1924, and allegedly maturing by reason of the husband’s death in 1943. The appeal is from a judgment for the beneficiary entered on the verdict of a jury.

The face amount of the insurance certificate was payable in the event the insured member should suffer death through external, violent and accidental means while the certificate remained in force. There was to be no liability if disease, defect or bodily injury was a contributing cause of death. Death within the intendment of the ■…