Preferred Accident Ins. v. Patterson
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; John Rellstab, District Judge. Action at law by Minnie C. Patterson against the Preferred Accident Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN B. McPHERSON, Circuit Judge.
[1] The policy sued upon was issued by the Preferred Accident Insurance Company of New York upon the bodily safety, including the life, of Walter E. Patterson, the husband of the plaintiff. He died 17 days after the occurrence hereafter referred to, and the jury has necessarily found as a fact that *596(in spite of the lapse of time) his death resulted “directly, independently and exclusively of any and all other causes, from bodily injury effected solely through accidental means.” This is the clause of the policy that gives rise to the present dispute, the…
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