Aetna Life Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn. v. Maxwell

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This action at law was brought by the infant plaintiff, William Maxwell, by his father and next of kin, against the 2Etna Life Insurance Company to recover damages for the loss of a leg occasioned by the negligent treatment of Dr. W. H. Howell, physician and surgeon, who was called in after the leg had been broken in an automobile accident. The doctor was covered by a group policy of insurance issued by the defendant to the Monongalia County Medical Society of which he was a member. The policy provided that the insurance company upon notice would defend and indemnify each…