Mutual Life Insurance v. Davis

"We consider it necessary to elaborate upon the second headnote only. The plaintiff brought suit upon a policy of life insurance (in which she was named as beneficiary) issued to her husband. The policy was for the sum of $2500, but it contained the following provision: “If there further be received at said home office due proof that such death resulted directly from bodily injury received after the date of issue of this policy, independently and exclusively of all other causes, and that such bodily injury was effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means, and that such…