Hause v. Standard Accident Insurance

Plaintiff’s intestate, a man 66 years old, at Adrian, Mich., July 26, 1909, after purchasing a railroad ticket of a railroad ticket agent and leaving the ticket window, returned to the window a moment or two before taking the train and asked the agent for a two days’ accident insurance policy. He designated no company or form of policy, and, without any oral representation by either, the agent issued a post card accident policy of the defendant company, and was paid 50 cents for it. Displayed in the station waiting room, over or near to the window where tickets were sold, was a metal…