Case ID: ny-2d_19/html/0998-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Carolyn M. Hoyt, Respondent, v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Appellant.
    Argued May 22, 1967;
    decided June 1, 1967.
    
      
      Meyer Fix and Thomas E. Goldman for appellant.
    
      John J. Gonsidine, Jr., for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Judges Scileppi, Bergan, Keating and Breitel. Chief Judge Fuld and Judge Burke dissent and vote to reverse on the ground that the insured’s death was not “ accidental ” within the sense of the insurance policy sued upon. Taking no part: Judge Van Voorhis.