Beveridge v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance

Maxwell, President:

This writ of error presents for review the trial court’s judgment for the defendant on a double indemnity clause of a life insurance policy which the defendant issued in 1927 to Kate Beveridge Chappell, daughter of the plaintiff. The parties waived a jury.

The insured lost her life October 25, 1936, while a guest passenger in an airplane which crashed to the ground.

The double indemnity clause is not applicable “in case death results * * * from engaging in aeroncmtic or submarine operations, either as a passenger or otherwise

The sole problem is whether the fatality of the…