Seater v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance

Action by the beneficiary under two policies of life insurance, each in the sum of $1,000, with provision for double indemnity if the death of the insured should result solely from bodily injuries effected directly and exclusively by external, violent, and accidental means, such double indemnity not to be payable, however, if death resulted directly or indirectly from illness or disease of any kind, or from physical or mental infirmity. The insured, who was the wife of the plaintiff, died on March 29, 1943, at the age of upwards of sixty-one years. The insurance company paid the single…