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SYKES v. NATIONWIDE MUT. INS.

413 Pa. 640 (1964)

Sykes, Appellant, v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 24, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney A. Simon, for appellant.

John C. Gault, with him Candor, Youngman & Gibson, for appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, March 24, 1964:

Fred Sykes was killed in an accident while driving his own automobile. He carried an insurance policy with the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company which refused payment of the face value of the policy, plus funeral expenses, to the beneficiary named therein, the decedent's widow, because, it contended, the policy excluded coverage of death resulting from circumstances assumed...

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