Cedergren v. Massachusetts Bonding & Ins.

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Magnus Peterson and his wife, Emma Peterson, employees on the steamer John Owen, went down with said *6boat in a storm on Lake Superior in November, 1919. The Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Company had issued an accident insurance policy on the life of Magnus Peterson, which provided for payment in case of his death by accident of the sum of $2,000, and, if death was caused by a cyclone, double the amount otherwise payable. The policy had attached to it what was known as a “special beneficiary supplement,” which provided for payment to the insured of $2,000 upon the…