Great American Casualty Co. v. Williams

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of recovery of benefits or indemnities under an accident insurance policy. The policy provides indemnity for accidental injury to insured “while actively engaged in farming, by actual contact with and while 'operating a threshing, mowing, reaping or binding machine, harrow or plow.”

Appellee was operating a binding machine, harvesting rice; was down under it, making .some adjustments or repairs, when a sledgehammer in the seat fell off and struck his foot, so injuring it that he was taken to the hospital, where his toe was amputated, and loss of 15…