Penn v. Standard Life & Accidental Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from W. J. Adams, J., at March Term, 1911, of RockiNgham. The facts are'sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court by Walher, J.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The defendant issued to the plaintiff an accident policy which insured him against “the irrecoverable and entire loss of one eye,” in the sum of $2,500, with the proviso that the insurance -should only be “against bodily injuries effected, directly and independently of all other causes, through external, accidental, and violent means.”
Plaintiff alleged that he fell from a train and was so injured that he lost the sight of one eye. There was evidence tending to east some suspicion on his statement that he had accidentally fallen, but, in the view we take of the case, it is not necessary to…
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- Freeman v. Mercantile Mutual Accident Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- White v. Standard Life & Accident InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Cary v. Preferred Accident InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1906
- Binder v. National Masonic Accident Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Carr v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903
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