Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Jackson

GARDNER, Justice.

Suit on a beneficiary certificate issued by defendant on the life of Porter H. Jackson, wherein plaintiff, his wife, was the named beneficiary. The certificate contained a double indemnity clause, providing for payment of double -the amount of the policy “upon receipt of due proof that the death of the member resulted, directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, and within sixty days after sustaining such injury.” The stipulated exceptions are here unimportant.

The application for insurance…