Root v. London Guarantee & Accident Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the London Guarantee and Accident Company, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 13th day of August, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury for $5,175, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 13th day of June, 1903, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
This action is by the administrator of John B. Crosby, deceased, to recover on an accident policy issued by the defendant December 3, 1901, for one year and which insured against death by accidental means.
The proof shows that Crosby fell from a bicycle on Irving place in the city of Buffalo on the 20th day of June, 1902, fracturing his right femur and it is claimed sustaining other injuries which culminated in his death on the tenth day of August following. At the time of the accident Crosby was fifty-one years of age, of robust health, vigorous in his mode of life, temperate in…
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