BUTCHER v. NATIONWIDE LIFE INS. CO.

No. 8117SC652.

290 S.E.2d 373 (1982)

Alesia Dee Inman BUTCHER v. NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faw, Folger, Sharpe & White by W. Thomas White and T. Richard Pardue, Jr., and Folger & Folger by Fred Folger, Jr. and H. Lee Merritt, Jr., Mount Airy, for plaintiff-appellee.

Petree, Stockton, Robinson, Vaughn, Glaze & Maready by Grover Gray Wilson and Michael L. Robinson, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellant.


ROBERT M. MARTIN, Judge.

The Accidental Death Benefit Rider issued on the life of Donald Butcher provided $10,000 insurance against "the death of the Insured ... [resulting] directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury caused solely by external, violent and accidental means." In applying the law to the uncontroverted facts of this case, we conclude that the death of the insured was not caused by accidental means and that it was not, therefore...

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