Georgie W. McCallum v. Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, a New York Corporation

Plaintiff; appellant, seeks to recover from Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee and defendant below, under double indemnity provisions of life insurance policies in event of death of insured as a direct result of bodily injury effected through external, violent and accidental means. The District Court sustained a motion for summary judgment filed by the insurance company.

The opinion of the District Court is reported in 1959, 175 F.Supp. 3, 7. It was there stated:

“If called upon to instruct the jury on the interpretation of what is meant by the words ‘external means’, it would be incumbent…