Pilot Life Insurance v. Crosswhite

This action was instituted by plaintiff, Larry Crosswhite, an infant, by his father and next friend, against defendant, Pilot Life Insurance Company, to recover medical expenses under a “scholastic accident insurance policy.” Trial by jury was waived and the case was submitted to the trial judge, upon an agreed stipulation of facts, who entered judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $1,233.15, and defendant is here on a writ of error.

Defendant contends that since the expenses incurred by the plaintiff were for the treatment of an infection which did not occur through an open visible…