Wallace v. Standard Acc. Ins. Co. of Detroit

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

This suit was upon a policy of accident insurance issued on behalf of Prank T. G. Wallace, Jr., who died while the policy was in force. Appellant challenges the correctness of a directed verdict in favor of appellee.

The question is, whether there was substantial evidence that the insured lost his life, directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injuries resulting solely from external, violent, and accidental means.

Por many years before, and until, his death, the insured had been a sufferer from diabetes mellitus.and had taken with more or less regularity…