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HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. v. DOUGLASS

No. 14766.

215 F.2d 201 (1954)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. v. DOUGLASS.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 6, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Barker, Cantey, Hanger, Johnson, Scarborough & Gooch, Ed Reichelt, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellant.

F. Bert Walker, Richard F. Martin, Aubrey G. Alexander, Alexander & Martin, Thompson, Walker, Smith & Shannon, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee, Alcyone Ross Douglass.

Before STRUM, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS and HOOPER, District Judges.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Defendant below appeals from a judgment for the appellee on an accident insurance policy dated January 10, 1917, insuring the husband, F. A. Douglass, against death "caused directly and exclusively by bodily injury sustained, solely and independently of all other causes, through accidental means" (emphasis added). Appellee was named as the beneficiary and Douglass died December 20, 1951. On that day Mrs. Douglass brought home a crate...

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