Hoff v. Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff is the beneficiary named in a life insurance policy issued by the defendant on March 2, 1923, to Charles J. Hoff, deceased. The policy contained a provision for double indemnity upon proof that the death of the insured resulted “directly from bodily injury, * * * independently and exclusively of all other causes, and that such bodily injury was effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, and that such death occurred within 60 days after the date of such bodily injury.”

Hoff was taken to the McPherson Hospital in Howell about May 27, 1932, suffering from general…