Liberty National Life Insurance Company v. Reid

On Application for Rehearing

HARWOOD, Justice.

In brief in support of the application for rehearing counsel for appellant argues strenuously that we erred in our judgment of affirmance of the judgment in that prop*35er recognition was not given to the doctrine of those cases which hold that if a disease from which an insured is suffering causes the accident which in turn produces injuries and death, then death results directly or indirectly from the disease which caused the accident.

In support of this proposition counsel cites the following cases: Knowlton v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co., 146…