Guy v. U. S. Casualty Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Justice, J., September Term, 1909, of McDowell. Tbe facts are stated in tbe opinion of tbe Court.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
Tbis is an action upon a'health-insurance policy, begun before a justice of tbe peace, for eight weeks’ indemnity, at $10 per week, on account of plaintiff’s sickness. Tbe policy requires tbat “written notice of sucb disease be given by tbe insured or bis attending physician to tbe company at its borne office within ten days of its contraction.”
In some cases, especially in certain diseases, tbe condition of tbe patient may be such, by reason of bis mental condition or violent physical suffering, that be cannot give the notice. In such cases the rule intimated in Williams v. Casualty Co. (this…
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