Throop

On the seventeenth day of August, 1916, the defendant executed and delivered to Hilda E. Throop two policies of insurance against loss resulting from bodily injuries to her effected directly and independently of all other causes, through accidental means (suicide or any attempt thereat, whether sane or insane, not covered); the beneficiary of said policies in the event of death thereunder being the plaintiff Charles B. Throop. This action is brought upon those policies to recover the compensation therein named on account of the death of Hilda E. Throop on the thirteenth day of September, 1916, occurring by reason of bodily injuries sustained in a manner within the terms of said policies. Upon issues properly framed the court found that “on September 13, 1916, said Hilda É. Throop was killed in the county of Riverside, state of California, by means of the discharge of a loaded shotgun in the hands of the plaintiff, and actually discharged by the plaintiff herein; but that said Hilda E. Throop did not thereby sustain bodily injuries, or bodily injury, which were effected directly and independently or directly or independently of all other causes through accidental means; that the…