New York Life Insurance Company v. Juanita Stokes McGehee as of the Estate of William B. McGehee

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This case involves insurance coverage under a double indemnity clause when the insured is a man of advanced years and has certain diseases usually associated with old age. The question before us is whether there is substantial evidence to justify the jury finding that the insured’s death resulted from an accidental injury, directly and independently of all other causes, and did not result directly or indirectly from disease.

William B. McGehee of Montgomery, Alabama, was old and blind. January 5, 1957, going from his bed to a chair with the help of his wife, he fell and…