Aitken v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodine, J.

The appeal in this case is from a judgment in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of Hudson county, affirmed in the Supreme Court. The holding was that Mary Aitken, the insured, met her death through external accidental means. If we could disturb the finding on the weight of evidence, we would do so because the proofs from the mouth of her attending physician clearly demonstrate that the deceased died of coronary occlusion due to a long-standing disease of the arteries.

The official death certificate recites the cause of death…