Wozniak v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins.

John Wozniak, a gasoline station attendant, was insured in a policy of life insurance of defendant company in the amount of $1,000. The policy also provided for an .additional indemnity of $1,000 in case of death resulting from accidental injury. The latter provision was subject to the following exception:

“This provision for benefit shall not apply if the death of the insured results directly or indirectly from disease or bodily or mental infirmity or from the inhaling of any kind of gas, whether voluntary or involuntary, or from self-destruction, sane or insane, or from homicide or from any…