Losie v. Royal Indemnity Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jeanette W. Losie, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chemung on the 20th day of February, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying the plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The question at issue upon the trial was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover single of double indemnity upon a policy of accident insurance. The policy provided that if the injury to the insured be sustained while riding as a passenger in a passenger elevator, the benefit should be doubled. The insured, Arthur T. Losie, was injured in April, *7461916, while getting off an elevator in a building occupied by the La France Garage Company in the city of Elmira, N. Y. He had driven his automobile into the garage and upon the elevator, and had been hoisted, seated in his car, to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Griffen v. . ManiceNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- Houlihan v. . Preferred Accident Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Blair v. Brownstone Oil & Refining Co.California Supreme Court · 1914
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- Fitzpatrick v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.California Court of Appeal · 1936