Cobb v. Preferred Mutual Accident Ass'n

1. Where an accident insurance policy insured the person to whom it was issued “ against bodily injuries effected through external, violent and accidental means,” and on the trial of an action thereon, predicated upon the loss of an eye, it appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff, while in an emaciated and feeble condition, after safely alighting from a train, carried *819his baggage, weighing from sixty to eighty pounds, a distance of about fifty yards and “injured himself in some way or other” in so doing, so that soon after putting the baggage down a defect in the vision of one of his…