Vanderbilt v. Travelers Insurance

The defendent by its policy of insurance issued in August of 1903 undertook the liability to pay the principal sum mentioned therein for loss of life of the insured. The insured, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, on the 7th of May, 1915, while the policy of insurance was in full force and effect, was traveling as a passenger and was on board the British steamer Lusitania, then bound from Hew York to Liverpool, Eng. This vessel was sunk at a point off the coast of Ireland, and when she was so sunk and as a result thereof Alfred G. Vanderbilt lost his life by drowning. The Lusitania was sunk in accordance…