Mitchell v. New York Life Ins.

An examination of the evidence discloses that the insured was found in an injured condition on the bathroom floor; that a rubber tube, which was attached to the bathtub faucet, was draped over the tub; that decedent’s son, upon finding his father, asked him “what the trouble was and he said he had been taking an enema and he felt something let loose, just like something burst in him.”

It is undisputed that the sigmoid burst and that food and fecal material passed into the abdominal cavity.

Under these facts, the single question presented is whether the insured died as a result of an injury…