NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. BRUNER

No. 19,000.

129 Ind. App. 271 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 616

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. BRUNER.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Rehearing denied November 24, 1958.

Transfer denied February 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry W. Torrance, Campbell, Gemmill, Browne, Ewer & Torrance, of counsel, both of Marion, John W. Houghton and Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd, of counsel, both of Indianapolis, for appellant.

Brown & Shadle, of Marion, and Albert W. Ewbank, of Indianapolis, for appellee.


PFAFF, C.J.

This appeal involves a double indemnity provision in certain insurance policies upon which this action was brought by appellee.

Each policy provides that double indemnity is payable if, "... the death of the insured resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental means ..."

The material facts are not in dispute...

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