White v. North Carolina Mut. Life Ins.

Mr. Associate Justice Oxner

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

Appellant, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, on September 12, 1932, issued a policy to one Sylvester White insuring his life in the sum of $100.00, and providing for the payment of an additional amount of $100.00 should the insured die as a result of bodily injury sustained “solely by accidental means, directly and independently of all other causes (suicide, sane or insane, not included)”. Respondent, Wisdom White, was named as beneficiary in the policy.

The insured died on July 9, 1944. Alleging that his death…