ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS v. KING

No. 5559.

161 F.2d 108 (1947)

ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA v. KING.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 9, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Dean Rainey and C. F. Haynsworth, Jr., both of Greenville, S. C. (Haynsworth & Haynsworth and Rainey and Fant, all of Greenville, S. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Miller C. Foster and Jesse W. Boyd, both of Spartanburg, S. C. (Johnson, Johnson & Foster, of Spartanburg, S. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

The scope of an aviation exclusion clause in a contract of life insurance is the question raised by this appeal. The insured, Lieutenant Drew L. King, a resident of South Carolina, was a flight observer serving with the Civil Air Patrol. He met his death on February 9, 1943, and this suit was instituted by the beneficiary of the policy, the appellee here, against the insurance company, appellant, for the full amount of the policy. The lower court...

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