Insurance Co. v. Seaver
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont. Mrs. Elizabeth Seaver sued the Travellers’ Insurance Company of Hartford on a policy of insurance, which insured her against loss of life of her husband — described in the policy as a livery-stalde keeper — caused by any accident within the meaning of the policy and conditions thereto annexed.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont. Mrs. Elizabeth Seaver sued the Travellers’ Insurance Company of Hartford on a policy of insurance, which insured her against loss of life of her husband — described in the policy as a livery-stalde keeper — caused by any accident within the meaning of the policy and conditions thereto annexed. Among these conditions was one that the insurance should “ not extend to death or injury caused by duelling or fighting, or other breach of the law on the part of the assured, . . . or by his loilfully exposing himself to any unnecessary danger or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The statutes of Vermont make all horse-raeing for any bet or wager a misdemeanor, and impose a fine not exceeding $500 for the.offence.
In regard to this branch of the defence the court instructed the jury that they were to regard the trotting race, in which the insured was engaged when he jumped from the sulky and was killed, as a breach of the law within the meaning of the clause of the policy on that subject. As the plaintiff below took no exception to this ruling and had a verdict, no error can be assigned on it here, and we need not further examine the argument of her counsel, which…
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