Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Palmer Hotel Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll —

Reversing.

The appellee, Palmer Hotel Go., operated a-hotel in Paducah, and there was issued to it by the appellant company a contract of insurance by which it obligated itself to indemnify the hotel company against loss occasioned' by damages it might sustain on account of injury or death suffered by any person while a passenger in its elevator, subject to conditions that will" be later noticed.

"While the contract was in force a passenger in the elevator sustained personal injures which were caused by structural defects in the elevator and not by the…