Kelly v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal hy defendant insurance company from a judgment for the plaintiff, as the beneficiary of four life insurance policies, in a suit to recover the benefits of double indemnity for the accidental death of the insured and also, in the case of all but one of the policies, the face amounts thereof. The provision under which the suit was brought, applicable by agreement of the parties to all the policies, was that the company should be liable for double indemnity in case “the death of the insured occurred . . . as a result, directly and independently of…