United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Blum
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Action by Estelle M. Blum against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This is an action by Mrs. Blum, widow and beneficiary named in a life insurance policy issued by the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, plaintiff in error herein.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Action by Estelle M. Blum against the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. This is an action by Mrs. Blum, widow and beneficiary named in a life insurance policy issued by the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, plaintiff in error herein. The complaint alleged that Samuel Blum, the insured, died at Seattle through external, violent, and accidental means; that proofs of death were duty…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The principal assignments of error are directed to the instructions of the court. The insurance company requested the following instruction:
“It appears from the -undisputed evidence in this case that on the 12th day of January, 1917, some time in the neighborhood of 5 o’clock in the afternoon, Samuel Blum was in his office in the Pacific Block in the city of Seattle ; that this office had an opening to the city street through a window or series of windows fronting thereon; that Blum was last seen alive in this room; that almost immediately thereafter his…
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