Mrs. Harold S. Willingham Nee Francis S. McCall v. Life & Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit brought by the beneficiary upon a policy of insurance issued upon the life of her husband, who while a guest passenger in a private airplane about 500 feet above the ground, jumped or was thrown from the airplane and upon striking the ground was killed. The plane crashed into the Indian River about 700 yards from the point where the insured landed. The policy afforded both ordinary life insurance, and a supplemental accidental death benefit, “issued m connection with and made a part of policy”, each in the amount of $5,000. Suit was brought for the face…