ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. GALLEHER

No. 2153.

144 A.2d 550 (1958)

ACACIA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Mary Adele GALLEHER, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo V. Morgan, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Roger J. Whiteford, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

James G. Boss and Francis J. O'Hara, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


ROVER, Chief Judge.

Appellee, Mary Adele Galleher, is the beneficiary under a policy of insurance issued on the life of her husband by appellant, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company. The policy sued on was for the sum of $2,500 with double indemnity benefits in the event of death by accidental means. The latter provision, which forms the basis of this appeal, stipulates that an additional sum of $2,500 will be paid the beneficiary...

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