Gennari v. Prudential Insurance Company of America

ELMO B. HUNTER, Special Judge

by transfer order.

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Frances Gennari, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, entered in accordance with the jury’s verdict, for defendant, The Prudential Insurance Company of America.

Plaintiff sued on two life insurance policies issued on the life of her husband, Joseph Gennari. The defendant had paid the amounts due under the life insurance provisions of the policy but refused to pay the double indemnities payable for death by accidental means.

On appeal to the St. Louis Court of Appeals that court, in an able…