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JAMESON v. MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

No. 27320.

415 F.2d 1017 (1969)

Frank JAMESON and Hazel Jameson Cole, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry M. Lesh, Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely, Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Ernest L. Sample, Beaumont, Tex., for appellees.

Before WISDOM and CARSWELL, Circuit Judges, and ROBERTS, District Judge.

CARSWELL, Circuit Judge:

Prone as the law is to see that full insurance benefits are paid to beneficiaries without much tolerance for quibbling over the syntax of exclusionary clauses, there are, nonetheless, instances where the insurers' writers make their words so plain and their meaning so clear that a demand for double indemnity can be resisted. Such a case is this.

The subject life insurance policies named the appellees as beneficiaries and provided for...

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