No. 6626. Decided March 15, 1944. 1. INSURANCE. "Direct result," within provision of life policy for payment of double indemnity for insured's death as direct result of accidental injury, does not mean immediate result of injury, but it is sufficient if injury is mediate, efficient cause of death, and where there is definite sequence or causal chain from accident causing injury to death, without independent intervening circumstances cooperating adequately and efficiently to cause death, death is
No. 15158. April 22, 1955. Jeff Davis, El Dorado, Ark. (B.L. Allen and H.D. Dickens, El Dorado, Ark., on the brief), for petitioner. Duane Beeson, Washington, D.C. (George J. Bott, David P. Findling, Marcel Mallet-Prevost and Frederick U. Reel, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for respondent. Lindsay P. Walden and William E. Rentfro, Denver, Colo., filed brief for Oil Workers International Union, CIO, as amici curiƦ. Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and VOGEL, Circuit Judges. VOGEL, Circuit Judge. This case
Docket No. L.A. 10426. October 1, 1928. APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. Walton J. Wood, Judge. Reversed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Tanner, Odell Taft for Appellant. Weber Crawford, and Samuel J. Crawford for Respondents. CURTIS, J. Action brought to recover the sum of $601.02 from the defendant bank, which amount plaintiffs allege they had deposited with said bank to their credit. [1] The defense by the bank is that it paid out said sum