Postler v. Travelers Ins. Co.

The plaintiff, wife of Gustave Postler, was the beneficiary named in two policies of accident insurance issued by the defendant to said Postler. By each of the policies Postler was insured in the principal sum of one thousand dollars “against bodily injuries effected directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent, and accidental means (suicide, whether sane or insane, is not covered).” The complaint alleged that on the twenty-seventh day of January, 1911, said Gustave Postler “received a bodily injury through external, violent and accidental means . . . to wit, by…