METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. ABBOTT

43741.

118 Ga. App. 587 (1968)

164 S.E.2d 859

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. ABBOTT.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 23, 1968.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lovejoy, Mayer, Allen & Quillian, Charles W. Allen, Charles J. Willis, for appellant.

Richter & Birdsong, Horace E. Richter, A. W. Birdsong, Jr., for appellee.


HALL, Judge.

The contract covered death "as a result, directly and independently of all other causes, of bodily injuries sustained. . . solely through violent, external and accidental means," and excluded death "caused wholly or partly, directly or indirectly, by disease, or bodily or mental infirmity."

Evidence of the following facts was presented and was not contradicted: The insured fell on steps at work and hit his head, thereafter became incoherent and...

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