Le Breton v. Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This is a suit on a life insurance policy, in which the beneficiary named therein, widow of the insured, seeks to recover the face amount of the policy, $10,000. The insured, Lieutenant Commander Alfred G. Epp, a naval pilot, was killed in the crash of a navy plane near Page, Oklahoma, on November 14, 19S0. At the time of his death he was insured under a contract of life insurance with the defendant, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. The defendant denies liability for the face amount of the policy, and contends that, under the terms of the “aviation risk provision” of…