Brinsmaid v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Ass'n
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Court. — Hon. James A. IIowe, Judge. Action by plaintiffs, as heirs of Thomas F. Brinsmaid, deceased, to recover on a certificate of insurance. Alice M. Steele filed a petition of intervention, claiming the indemnity stipulated. The defendant denied all liability. On trial judgment was entered dismissing plaintiffs’ petition, and on the issues between intervener and defendant the jury disagreed. The plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
While bathing in the surf at Long Beach, Cal., November 27, 1907, Thomas E. Brinsmaid lost consciousness, and was taken from the water to the emergency room of the bathhouse. Though skillfully treated, he did not recover, and whether death resulted from drowning or rupture anuerism of the, aorta was in issue. lie became a member of the defendant, a mutual assessment association, in 1883, with his mother named as beneficiary. She died in 1889, and no one was substituted by him in her stead unless this was effected by will executed in December, 1906, in which he gave all property of which he'…
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