Buckingham Life Insurance Co. v. Winstead

GEORGE B. RYAN, Special Commissioner.

On December 13, 1968, the insured, John Albert Winstead, appellee’s decedent, was operating his 1966 one-half ton pickup truck on Kentucky Highway 21 in Madison County, Kentucky when it left the road and struck a telephone pole resulting in his death the same day.

The decedent had purchased a policy of insurance from the appellant, the terms of which provided, among other things, for accidental death benefits:

“If loss of a covered person’s life shall result, within 60 days from the date of the accident, solely from injury sustained as the result of an…