Bovedeau v. Boston Casualty Co.

This is an appeal from a decision by an Appellate Division dismissing a report of rulings by a judge of the District Court of Springfield. The plaintiff brought suit upon a policy issued by the defendant indemnifying him for “disability illness,” but providing that “no indemnity shall be paid for any illness which is contracted and begins before this Policy has been in force for thirty (30) days.” There was evidence that the plaintiff underwent an operation for appendicitis several months before August 22, 1927; that, as a result of that operation, adhesions formed in his intestines; that, on…