Wallin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

The wife of insured, as beneficiary, brought this action to recover on two policies of accident insurance. The defendant appeals from the judgment entered by the court on the verdict of the jury in favor of the plaintiff.

The policies, though differing in the sums insured, are alike in all other particulars. They were issued by the appellant, and insured August Wallin against

“ . . . the effects resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes, from bodily injury sustained solely through external, violent and accidental means (excluding suicide, sane or insane) ...”

At the time the…