Gillies v. Preferred Accident Insurance

Plaintiff sues to recover certain death benefits in the sum of $7,500 under a policy of insurance dated October 4, 1908. It is undisputed that at the time of the death of the insured the policy was in full force and effect. In the application for insurance the insured gave his occupation as “advertising,” and the duties thereof as “ office work and solicitor.” When the war broke out the insured was commissioned as a captain in the United States Army and was sent abroad. On September 4, 1918, while leading his men on the battlefields of France, he was struck by an exploding shell of the enemy…