Legal Opinion
Dick v. New York Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1959No. 58PublishedCited by 225 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
The question in this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, under the applicable principles hereinafter discussed, properly held that it was error to submit to a jury’s determination whether an insured died as a result of suicide or accident.
*438Petitioned is the beneficiary of two policies issued by respondent in 1944 and 1949 insuring the life of her now-deceased husband, William Dick. Each policy contained a clause which provided that double indemnity would be payable upon receipt of proof that the death of the insured “resulted directly, and independently of all other…
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