ÆTNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. STOKES

No. 16754.

252 F.2d 383 (1958)

ÆTNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, Appellant, v. Dorothea STOKES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. J. Blackwell, S. J. Powers, Jr., Blackwell, Walker & Gray, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Henry G. Simmonite, Walsh, Simmonite, Budd & Walsh, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by his wife, as beneficiary, to recover for the alleged accidental death of her husband, an employee of United Cigar and Whelan Stores Corporation, the face amount of the policy, the suit was on a group accidental death and dismemberment policy covering any insured employee for death or dismemberment occurring "as the result of a bodily injury effected during the term of the policy solely through external violent and accidental means...

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