Whatcott v. Continental Casualty Co.

ELIAS HANSEN, Justice.

This action was brought to recover upon an accident insurance policy issued to John J. Whatcott. Plaintiff is the beneficiary named in the policy. She is the surviving widow df John J. Whatcott, who died on February 2, 1931, while being operated on for chronic appendicitis. The policy sued upon contains, among others, the following provision:

“The insurance given by this policy is against loss of life * * * resulting from a personal bodily injury which is affected solely and independently of all other causes by happening of an external, violent and purely accidental…