Sweeney v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, P. J.
—This is an action brought upon a policy issued by the defendant upon the life of Terrence J. Sweeney in the sum of $1,000 payable to the insured’s mother, May Sweeney, and embodying a supplementary contract for payment of double indemnity in the event of death by external, violent and accidental means, subject, however, to the proviso, among others, that “death shall not have resulted from bodily injuries . . . sustained while or as a result of participating in or attempting to commit an assault or felony’’.
Upon the death of the insured, which occurred as the result of injuries sustained in…
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