Meyer v. Standard Life & Accident Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Sullivan on the 17th day of June, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Sullivan Circuit, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J. :
This action was brought by the plaintiff, the beneficiary named in a certain policy of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life of Frank D. Meyer, deceased, her husband, whose death, it was alleged, was the direct result of an accidental injury sustained after the issuing of .the policy.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment and the defendant appeals.
On the trial, the plaintiff, after proving that the insured, Frank D. *75Meyer, was injured in consequence of being accidentally struck with an iron wedge on his left side in the region of the heart on the morning of November 21,1890,…
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