Pilot Life Ins. v. Wise

SIBLEY, Circuit Jiidge.

On September 13, 1929, Pilot Life Insurance Company issued a policy of insurance to Paul H. Jennings, with Dr. S. P. Wise, creditor, as beneficiary, thereby promising to pay $2,000 on due proof of the death of Jennings, and $2,000 additional if that death resulted within ninety days directly and independently of all other causes from a bodily injury inflicted through external, violent, and accidental means. The policy was stipulated to be void if the insured, whether sane or insane, should eommit suicide within two years from its date, and the accidental death benefit…