Mutual Life Ins. v. Garner

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action on four policies of life insurance which bind the insurance company to pay an aggregate of $15,000 upon proof of the death of the insured, James F. Garner, and an additional $15,000, called double indemnity, upon proof that his death resulted from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means. The insured died on January 20, 1932, of a gunshot wound. His widow, the beneficiary named in the policies, sued to collect the double indemnity, claiming that death was accidental. The insurance company relied on the defense of…