NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. KASSLY

No. 5980.

87 F.2d 236 (1937)

NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. KASSLY.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph J. Kramer, Bruce A. Campbell, Roland H. Wiechert, R. E. Costello, and Norman J. Gundlach, all of East St. Louis, Ill., for appellant.

Louis Beasley and Edward C. Zulley, both of East St. Louis, Ill., for appellee.

Before EVANS and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and BRIGGLE, District Judge.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant seeks a reversal of judgment based upon a double indemnity insurance policy wherein the widow of the insured was beneficiary. Recovery was predicated upon an alleged fact showing of death from septicaemia occasioned by an accident. The contest is limited to the double indemnity phase of the liability. Our decision must turn upon the language of the contract which measures appellant's liability.

The Facts. John Kassly obtained...

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