Nathan v. New York Life Insurance

This action to recover double indemnity for accidental death was tried without a jury following a prior jury trial which ended in disagreement. .....

Decedent was 68 years old. He suffered from a cardiac ailment and sedatives and oxygen were administered to him.at a hospital in his last days.. In the morning of October 14,1954 he was found lying dead on the pavement adjacent to the hospital wall some nine stories below the room in which he had been confined. No one witnessed the event. '

Defendant asks that I make a finding of suicide. Judge Dye in the recent case of Begley v. Prudential Ins.…