John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston v. Plummer

The appellant, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, issued in 1932 a life insurance policy agreeing to pay to Augusta C. Plummer, appellee, the sum of $3,000 upon the death of her stepson, Jack W. Plummer. By a supplementary contract, issued in consideration of a special yearly premium of $7.50, the company agreed to pay an additional sum of $3,000 upon proof that the death of the insured occurred directly and exclusively as the result of bodily injury “caused solely by external, violent and accidental means, of which there is a visible wound or contusion on the exterior of the body…