PILOT LIFE INS. CO. v. AYERS

No. 5599.

163 F.2d 860 (1947)

PILOT LIFE INS. CO. v. AYERS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 5, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert S. Kemper, Jr., of Bluefield, W. Va., and C. R. Wharton, of Greensboro, N. C. (Richardson & Kemper, of Bluefield, W. Va., and Smith, Wharton & Jordan, of Greensboro, N. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Jospeh M. Sanders, of Bluefield, W. Va. (W. V. Ross, of Bluefield, W. Va., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the beneficiary named in two life insurance policies in the sum of $2,000 each to recover the double indemnity which the insurance company agreed to pay in the event that the insured should sustain bodily injury resulting in death through external, violent and accidental means, the death being the direct result thereof and independent of all other causes. The insured was killed by a fall from the window of a hotel at...

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