Rudd v. Great Eastern Casualty & Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $1,000 upon a life insurance policy. The answer set out the conditions of the policy and denied any knowledge as to whether on April 26, 1910, the insured was injured by a railway train, which injury was the immediate cause of his death, and death was the direct re-suit of such accident, and that the injuries and death were caused .by external, violent and accidental means.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $1,000 upon a life insurance policy. The answer set out the conditions of the policy and denied any knowledge as to whether on April 26, 1910, the insured was injured by a railway train, which injury was the immediate cause of his death, and death was the direct re-suit of such accident, and that the injuries and death were caused .by external, violent and accidental means. The answer specifically alleged that, at the time the insured received the injury, from the -effects of which he died, it was not while he was walking upon a…
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
The Missabe & Northern Railway depot in the city of Virginia faces north on Chestnut street, and is about eighty feet in length and forty feet in width. It is surrounded by a platform twelve feet wide on the north, west, and south sides, and fifteen feet wide on the east side, where it extends to the south for a distance of about one hundred eighty feet from the east end of the depot. The main track of the railway runs on the east side of this long platform, ,and the westerly rail is about three feet distant from it. The freight depot is located about one hundred seventy feet south of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Anthony v. Mercantile Mutual Accident Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- McKone v. Michigan Central RailroadMichigan Supreme Court · 1883
- Klugherz v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Hale v. Grand Trunk RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1888
- Cook v. Modern BrotherhoodSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
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