Philadelphia Life Ins. v. Hayworth

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was defendant below; and the defendant in error, the plaintiff, and they will be so styled here. , The plaintiff, Sarah K. Hayworth, is the widow of John B. Hayworth and was the beneficiary named in a policy upon his life issued by the defendant, the Philadelphia Life Insurance Company. By its terms, the defendant bound itself to pay $6,000 if the insured died from bodily injuries caused solely by external, violent and accidental causes and $3,000 if death came in any other way, except by suicide, in which excepted case there was to be no liability…