PLANTERS' BANK OF TUNICA, MISS. v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

No. 4512.

11 F.2d 602 (1926)

PLANTERS' BANK OF TUNICA, MISS., et al. v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 25, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Cutrer, of Clarksdale, and C. A. Jaquess and John W. Dulaney, both of Tunica, Miss. (W. L. Bankston, of Tunica, Miss., and Edward W. Smith, of Clarksdale, Miss., on the brief), for plaintiffs in error.

Robt. H. Thompson and J. Harvey Thompson, both of Jackson, Miss., Carruthers Ewing, Robt. E. King, and Earl King, all of Memphis, Tenn., and Louis H. Cooke, of New York City (Ewing, King & King, of New York City, on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

On October 4, 1921, the New York Life Insurance Company, defendant in error, issued its policy on the life of Simon Caplan for $25,000. The policy provided for payment of double indemnity in the event that "the death of the insured resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent, and accidental cause." The policy also provided that ...

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