Aufrichtig v. Columbia National Life Insurance

Plaintiff was the wife, and 'at the institution of this suit the widow, of one Charles Auf-richtig’.. The suit is to recover some fifteen thousand dollars upon two policies of insurance taken out by Charles Aufrichtig in defendant company. The policies are what is known as accident insurance policies. The first policy provides for payment of the full sum in it mentioned in the event of death occasioned by “bodily injuries sustained through accidental means and resulting directly from such accident independently and exclusive of all other causes/” This first policy, declared upon in the first…