Life and Casualty Ins. Co. of Tenn. v. Jones

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Mayme Jones, filed these actions to recover from appellant, Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee, as beneficiary under two policies of insurance issued by appellant on the life of appellee’s husband, Biley Jones.

The first policy was a regular life policy which provided for payment of $1,000 in case of death. The same policy also contained the following accidental death provision :

“Upon receipt at the Home Office of the company of due proof of death of the Insured resulting directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injuries…