Southland Life Insurance Co. v. Trahan

POPE, Justice.

This is a suit upon a life insurance policy. Whether the policy provisions covered or excluded the risk of death while the insured was flying in a military plane and whether the insurer is estopped to claim that aviation risks were excluded are the legal questions presented. The jury answered all issues in favor of the plaintiff, who is the widow of deceased. The court, however, gave judgment in her favor, not grounded upon the jury verdict, but as a matter of law, based on an interpretation of the insurance policy.

Claude Trahan, the insured, in 1953 was a Sergeant on flying…