National Life Accident Ins. Co. v. Hannon

This suit is upon an accident insurance policy. The insured died as a result of a gunshot wound inflicted by one Perry Hazzard. Among'the defenses. interposed was a plea to the effect that the policy sued upon contains the following stipulation : “This policy does not cover injuries intentionally inflicted upon the insured by himself or by any other person except by burglars or robbers,” and that insured came to his death by a gunshot wound inflicted intentionally upon him by one Hazzard, who was, at the time of the shooting, neither a burglar nor a robber.

After the reversal of the case on…