Travelers Insurance v. Snowden
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error to the district court for Buffalo county. Tried below before Greene, J. W. W. Morsman: I am aware of the case of Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Snowden, 12 U. S. App., 704, a suit for the same injury. In that case the insurer seems to have contended that the statements of the assured in the application were warranties, and defeated a recovery in tolo.
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Error to the district court for Buffalo county. Tried below before Greene, J. W. W. Morsman: I am aware of the case of Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Snowden, 12 U. S. App., 704, a suit for the same injury. In that case the insurer seems to have contended that the statements of the assured in the application were warranties, and defeated a recovery in tolo. There is nothing in the report of the case to show that there was any provision for payment of so much indemnity as the premium, at the proper rates, would have purchased, in case of injury in an occupation more hazardous than that in…
1Opinion of the CourtNokval, C. J.
This case was before us at a former term. Travelers Ins. Co. v. Snowden, 45 Nebr., 249. The action was upon an accident policy of insurance providing for the payment of $5,000 in case of death of insured through external violence and accidental means, or one-third of that amount in the event he should suffer the loss of a hand. The policy also stipulated that Andrew J. Snowden, the plaintiff below, is insured “under classifications preferred, being a cattle dealer or buyer and shipper (not tender or drover, not on ranch or farm by occupation), * * * that if the insurer is injured in any…
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