Allen v. Massachusetts Mutual Accident Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a policy of insurance against accident. Trial in the Superior Court, before Graskill, J., who directed a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
On July 31, 1895, the plaintiff signed an application for seven thousand five hundred dollars, death benefit, and thirty-seven dollars and a half, weekly indemnity, and delivered it to a local agent of the defendant in Worcester, paying him seven dollars and a half. The agent said that the application would be sent on that afternoon, and that the policy would be delivered the next day. By the eighteenth clause, the plaintiff agreed that the defendant should not be liable before the receipt and acceptance of the application by the secretary in Boston, and that it was not responsible for money…
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