Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Kennedy

Stephens, P. J:

1. On the trial of a suit by the beneficiary against the insurer in a life-insurance policy, to recover the amount payable as a double indemnity, where the death of the insured was caused from bodily injuries sustained solely through external, violent, and accidental means, where the defense was based solely on the ground that the death was the result o”f suicide, and therefore that under the terms of the policy there was no liability, where the court charged the jury that the plaintiff contended that the deceased met his death by accident and that the plaintiff should recover…