SCALES v. HOME LIFE INS. CO.

No. 8324.

89 F.2d 580 (1937)

SCALES v. HOME LIFE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 14, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Talbot Odom and Braxton B. Provine, Jr., both of Greenwood, Miss., for appellant.

P. H. Eager, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., and Edward C. Brewer, of Clarksdale, Miss., for appellee.

Before FOSTER, HUTCHESON, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was for accidental death benefits under a policy providing for payment if death resulted from bodily injury, "effected solely through external, violent and accidental means * * * and resulted directly and exclusively therefrom, independently of all other causes." The claim was that Robert Scales, deceased insured, had within the policy, suffered such a death by shooting, at the hands of Henry Jackson, a negro tenant on his plantation...

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