Le Glaire v. New York Life Insurance

Defendant appeals from a judgment in the sum of $14,322.60 entered on a jury verdict in an action founded on a claim for double indemnity under two policies of life insurance issued by defendant on the life of decedent George Le Glaire. The double indemnity clause was the usual one and provided for payment on that basis should death result solely from accidental means “ directly, and independently of all other causes ’ ’. Thus if illness or disease contributed in any way to death there could be no recovery under the accident clause.

The decedent, a Chicago resident, was just short of 54 years…