Purcell v. Washington Fidelity National Insurance

This is an action upon a policy of health and accident insurance issued by the Continental Life Insurance Company to the plaintiff, and later assumed by the defendant. The policy promised to pay the plaintiff the sum of $100 per month for any period of disability that confined him within doors. The complaint alleged a disability, commencing June 4, 1928, and the defendant’s failure to make any payments subsequent to March 30, 1930. It prayed for $1,300 damages, and $600 attorney’s fees. The answer, after denying all of the averments of the complaint, alleged that the Continental Life…