Howe v. National Life Insurance

The plaintiff;- the... beneficiary named in a .policy issued b.y the defendant, and insuring the life of her husband,, brings this action to recover double indemnity *284which the defendant agreed to pay “upon receipt of due proofs that the death of the insured resulted independently of all other causes from . . . bodily injury effected solely and exclusively by violent, external, and accidental means . . . but subject to the following terms and conditions: This accidental death benefit shall not be payable if the death of the insured resulted (a) directly or indirectly from disease of any kind .…