Legal Opinion
Griswold v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided July 15, 1935PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoulton, J.
The plaintiff is the beneficiary under a policy of accident insurance, issued by the defendant, insuring her late husband, James H. Griswold, against “the results of bodily injuries sustained while this policy is in force and caused directly and independently of all other causes by violent and accidental means,” and providing also that the policy should not cover death caused wholly or partly by infection “excepting only septic infection of and through a visible wound caused directly and independently of all other causes by violent and accidental means.” Verdict and judgment below were for…
2Cases cited84 opinions
- United States Mutual Accident Ass'n v. BarrySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Landress v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Lewis v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Western Commercial Travelers' Ass'n v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
- Bryant v. Continental Casualty Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1916
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3Cited by11 opinions
- American Fidelity Co. v. North British & Mercantile InsuranceSupreme Court of Vermont · 1964
- Gage v. Union Mutual Fire Insurance CompanySupreme Court of Vermont · 1961
- Eaglestein v. Pacific National Fire Insurance Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1964
- Fish v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1967
- Bush v. Order of United Commercial TravelersCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1942
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