Powers v. Travelers Insurance

The defendant’s motion for judgment upon the verdict should have been allowed. The first issue was answered by consent; and the contract insured the intestate against bodily injuries effected solely by external, violent, and accidental means, as therein set out, subject to specific conditions and limitations. Among these limitations is this: that the insurance should not cover death resulting wholly or partly from several designated agencies, one of which is “firearms.”

The insured and the defendant had the legal right to enter into the contract, and the parties are bound by its terms. “In the…