Flanagan v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

I shall not go into the evidence, except to say that at the time the accused was under the care of a physician, following a gall bladder operation, and there is some evidential basis for the suggestion that it is not improbable he was taking a short-cut to his physician’s office, via a by-road or pathway leading to the railroad, a course he had taken on occasion. There is no contention that the proofs did not raise an issue for the jury as to whether the death of the assured was due to external, violent and purely accidental means within the intendment of the policy. The sole question is…