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RYAN v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY CO.

No. 5869.

47 F.2d 472 (1931)

RYAN v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 10, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Paine Kelly and W. B. Lindsay, both of Tampa, Fla. (W. B. Lindsay, T. Paine Kelly, and J. W. B. Shaw, all of Tampa, Fla., on the brief), for appellant.

R. W. Shackleford and Morris E. White, both of Tampa, Fla. (Robert W. Shackleford and Shackleford, Ivy, Farrior & Shannon, all of Tampa, Fla., on the brief), for appellee.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellant on a policy issued by the appellee whereby the latter promised to pay to the former a stated sum for the loss of life of Charles J. Ryan, her husband, "resulting from a personal injury which is effected solely and independently of all other causes by the happening of an external, violent and purely accidental event." The evidence showed as follows: At the time of his death the insured was forty-four years...

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