Preferred Accident Ins. Co. of New York v. Combs

JOYCE, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the beneficiary of an accident policy issued by the appellant company to Claude R. Combs. Judgment was entered for the beneficiary. The’insurance company will hereinafter be referred to as the defendant, arid the beneficiary, the widow of Combs, as the plaintiff.

The policy was issued to Combs in July, 1915. By its general terms defendant insured Combs “against loss or disability as herein defined, resulting directly, independently, and exclusively of any and all other causes from Bodily Injury effected solely through Accidental Means.”…