Scales v. Prudential Ins.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Alleging that the death occurred “as a result ' directly and independently of all other causes of bodily injury effected'solely through external, violent and accidental means,” plaintiff-appellant, Mildred Reed Scales, sued defendant-appellee to recover the accidental death benefit provided for in an insurance policy it had issued on the life of her deceased husband, Charles Reed. Appellee, by denying that it was, put her upon her proof that the death was accidental. No one saw the firing of the shot which took Reed’s life. But his cook and houseboy who had just…