Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Thompson

VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.

This writ of error challenges a judgment obtained by the assured upon a policy of accident insurance. By three several assignments of error we are asked to say that there was no substantial evidence to sustain a finding for the plaintiff, and therefore that a verdict for the defendant should have been directed. One of these relates to the denial of a motion for a directed verdict made by the defendant at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case in chief, another to the disposition of a like motion made at the conclusion of all the evidence, and the other to the…