Workman v. Continental Casualty Co.

Litz, Judge:

This is an action in assumpsit by Edna Workman as beneficiary in a health and accident insurance policy for $2,000.00 issued in 1925 by defendant, Continental Casualty Company, to her husband, Amos Workman, “as a passenger brakeman or baggageman on train”. He lost his life by accident February 16, 1931, while engaged as a freight brakeman in the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. In his application, attached to the policy, Workman stated that his occupation was “passenger brakeman or baggageman on trains”. The policy provides that if the insured is injured while…