Crandall v. Continental Casualty Co.

This is a suit in assumpsit upon a health and accident insurance policy issued by appellant to the husband of appellee, May 11, 1905. The insured died September 8, 1911, and appellee is his beneficiary. The declaration sets out the policy in full, but the question here arises on the promise to pay the sum of $400 if the insured “should receive bodily injury which was effected directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent and purely accidental means resulting in death of insured necessarily and solely from such injury” within ninety days thereafter. It is averred…