Curth v. New York Life Ins. Co.

Plaintiffs brought suit as beneficiaries under a life insurance policy issued by defendant on the life of their son G-eorge who died within the year after the issuance of the policy. The policy of a face value of $1,000 also provided for double indemnity if death resulted directly, and independently from all other causes, from bodily injury, effected solely through external, violent and accidental means; that neither the face benefits of the policy nor the double indemnity should be payable if death resulted, among other causes, from self-destruction by insured, whether sane or insane, within…