Capitol Life Insurance v. Di Iullo

On November 21, 1925, the Capitol Life Insurance Company issued a policy on the life of Carlo Di Iullo for $5,000. Attached to the policy and made a part thereof was a double indemnity provision, whereby, so far as pertinent here, the company agreed to pay an additional $5,000 “in event that the death of the insured hereunder results directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause, and that such death occur within sixty days after sustaining such injury.” It provided that the double indemnity benefit “will not…