Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada v. Kiester

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The construction of the exclusion clause of a life-insurance policy, “participating, as a passenger or otherwise, in aviation or aeronautics,” is of first impression in this State, although this clause and others almost identical with it have received attention from other courts throughout the country. Two fundamental principles of law of force in this State—first, that policies of insurance, when susceptible of more than one construction, should be most strictly construed against the insurance company (Atlas Assurance Co. v. Lies, 70 Ga. App. 162, 27 S.…