Meech v. National Accident Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The National Accident Society, from a judgment of' the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 16th day of April, 1899, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order bearing date the 6th day of April, 1899, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying .the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The defendant, an accident insurance company, issued a policy of insurance to the plaintiff on the 3d day of February, 1896, whereby, *145for the consideration paid, it agreed that if the plaintiff should accidentally sustain bodily inj uries incapacitating him from transacting his usual business it would indemnify him in the sum of twenty-live dollars per week. On the 27th day of June, 1897, while said policy was in force, the plaintiff accidentally sustained injuries, without fault on his part, while riding a bicycle.
The conditions of the policy required that notice of the injury…
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