Laventhal v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York

Plaintiff recovered judgment for $1,475 upon an accident insurance policy. This appeal is from the judgment on the judgment-roll with a bill of exceptions.

On January 2, 1903, the defendant issued to plaintiff an accident insurance policy, which provided that the company “does insure the person described in said schedule [the plaintiff herein] for the period of one year from noon, standard time, the day this contract is dated, against disability or death resulting directly, and independently of all other causes, from bodily injury sustained through external, violent and accidental means ...…