Continental Casualty Co. v. Skaggs

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Glen Skaggs obtained a verdict and judgment of $5,000 against Continental Casualty Company in his suit alleging entitlement to insurance benefits at the rate of $1,000 per month for hospital confinement occurring “solely as the consequence of direct bodily injury resulting from an accident and independent of all other causes.” The company has appealed. Skaggs initiated a cross-appeal seeking greater recovery but has not pursued it in this court.

*511The appellant maintains that the evidence in behalf of Skaggs lacked sufficient probative value to make a jury issue as to whether…