Depue v. Travelers' Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHFRSON, District Judge.
1. Tbe plaintiff’s action is based upon a policy of accident insurance whereby the defendant agreed to pay him a certain sum of money if his mother, Mrs. Sarah M. Hope, should lose her life as the result of “bodily injuries effected directly and independently of all other causes, through external, violent and accidental means * * ⅜ while in a passenger elevator.” It' is conceded that she died from bodily injuries such as are described in the quoted clause, but it is denied that they' were inflicted while she was “in a passenger elevator.” The facts upon which…
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