DIAMOND v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

No. 4456.

50 F.2d 884 (1931)

DIAMOND et al. v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

June 19, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Bachrach, Benjamin C. Bachrach, and Arthur Magid, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Homer H. Cooper, Frank H. Scott, and Wendell J. Brown, all of Chicago, Ill., and Louis H. Cooke, of New York City, for appellee.

Before ALSCHULER, EVANS, and SPARKS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellee issued two $5,000 insurance policies on the life of one Harry H. Diamond. Each policy provided that "double the face of this policy" should be paid if the insured's death "resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental cause." A provision also appeared in each policy to the effect that "this double indemnity benefit will not apply if the insured's death...

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