Canney v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

On January 29, 1931, the defendant, through its agent in Malden, Massachusetts, issued to the plaintiff, then living in Malden, two policies of insurance, one an accident and health policy, the other the policy in suit. Four days later the plaintiff received a bullet wound in his left forearm. He was confined to the hospital for a week or more and then came to his father’s home in Farmington in this state. Soon afterward a tumor began to form at his elbow joint. This necessitated an operation, the effect of which was to diminish the supply of blood to the arm. He testified that his arm was…