Maness v. Life & Casualty Insurance

Mr. Chief Justioe Green

delivered .the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit upon an accident insurance policy -which was dismissed upon demurrer by the trial judge.

Among other things, the policy protected the insured “against the result of bodily injuries . . . effected solely by external, violent and accidental means strictly in the manner hereafter stated . . . . if the insured shall be struck by a vehicle which is being propelled by steam, cable, electricity, naphtha, gasoline, horse, compressed air or liquid power while insured is walking or standing on a public highway.”

The declaration…