Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Galleher

ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellee, Mary Adele Galleher, is the beneficiary under a policy of insurance issued on the life of her husband by appellant, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company. The policy sued on was for the sum of $2,500 with double indemnity benefits in the event of death by accidental means. The latter provision, which forms the basis of this appeal, stipulates that an additional sum of $2,500 will be paid the beneficiary upon proof that the death of the insured resulted “directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injury sustained solely through external, violent and…