Clarkson v. Union Mutual Casualty Co.

I. This is an action upon an accident policy providing compensation for disability “resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes from bodily injury sustained during the life of this policy, solely through external, violent, and accidental means.” Ap-pellee testified that, while in the act of loading a heavy log upon a wagon-, and after he had placed it upon his shoulder, he felt something give way, and he fell with the log against the wagon and to the ground. The principal point urged by appellant is that the injury, which is not denied, did not “result solely through external,…