Aetna Life Ins. v. Newbern

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit upon the double indemnity provision of a life insurance policy, the material part of which reads as follows: “If the death of the insttred * * * results directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injuries effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, * * * and if such death does not result from suicide, * * * then the Company will pay a sum equal to the sum described in this policy as the sum insured [$10,000] in addition thereto.”

The appellee, herein called the plaintiff, was the beneficiary named in the policy issued by…