Brush v. Washington National Insurance

— Plaintiff’s petition stated as her cause of action that the defendant insurance company issued to Austin O. Brush, on July 1, 1939, a policy of insurance, agreeing to insure the said Brush against loss of life by accidental means, in the sum of $1,000. Attached to the petition were copies of the policy and application. The petition alleged that during the night of October 1-2,1939, the insured met his death by accidental means, by being accidentally asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas, which he accidentally inhaled while sitting in his parked automobile near Marshalltown; and further alleged…