King v. Aetna Ins. Co.

(after stating the facts as above).,

The errors of which the appellant chiefly complains relate to the dismissal of the first and second separate defenses. With respeet to the sufficiency of the anchors, the testimony was conflicting. The plaintiff’s own witness, Young, testified that, if their aggregate weight was only 200 pounds, that would not be enough. He said that the fluke anchor weighed about 150 pounds and the mushroom anchor about 250. But the defendants had witnesses who swore that the latter weighed only 50 or 75 pounds. It is true that Laird, who should know the most about it…