Thompson v. Columbian National Life Insurance
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions by the defendant. This is an action on an accident insurance policy issued by defendant to Warren Thompson, which, in case of his death, was payable to his wife, the plaintiff. Flea, the general issue. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff. The defendant filed a motion for a new trial and had various exceptions, all considered in the opinion. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, C. J.
Action upon an accident insurance policy. The verdict was for the plaintiff, and the case comes before this court on defendant’s exceptions and motion for a new trial. The plaintiff claims that her husband, the insured, received bodily injuries through accidental means in consequence of which he died. The defendant claims that the insured did not die in consequence of the accident “independently and exclusively of all other causes,” as the policy phrases it. This present the .issue of fact.
Motion. The assured was mate on a steamer plying between Portsmouth and the Isle of Shoals. The evidence…
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