Lehman v. Great Western Accident Ass'n
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — IIon. F. E. Gaynor,' Judge. Action on an accident policy to recover a stipulated benefit for disability resulting from accidental means. At' the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the court, on defendant’s motion, directed a verdict in its favor, and from a judgment on this verdict plaintiff -appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
The facts which the evidence introduced for plaintiff tended to show were that plaintiff, holding a policy in the defendant company, providing a stipulated indemnity for loss of time resulting from disability due to «accidental means, engaged for three successive evenings in the violent exercise involved in the game of bowling or tenpins, and that in the course of the game on the third evening, which was January 20, 1909, he threw a certain ball, and strained his side. He felt the strain at once,, but paid mo attention to it. Later, as it grew worse, he quit bowling. The next day he had a…
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