CUMMINS v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.

Docket No. 76, Calendar No. 45,885.

337 Mich. 629 (1953)

60 N.W.2d 490

CUMMINS v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes, Hollis & Norton, for plaintiff.

Dickinson, Wright, Davis, McKean & Cudlip (Daniel J. Tindall, Jr., and Richard C. Van Dusen, of counsel), for defendant.


DETHMERS, C.J.

Plaintiff, named beneficiary in a life insurance policy, after collecting the ordinary death benefits, sued in the common pleas court for the city of Detroit on the double indemnity clause for the additional benefits provided in the event assured died "as a result of bodily injuries sustained solely through external, violent, and accidental means, directly and independently of all other causes". Judgment entered...

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