United States Casualty Co. v. Hanson
Colorado Court of Appeals
Appeal from the District Court of Arapahoe County.
1Opinion of the CourtGunter, J.
This is an action upon a policy of accident insurance, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, appellee.
1. Attached, to the policy were numerous conditions which, not satisfied, would defeat a recovery, among them a visible mark of the injury on the body of insured; also the injury must not have been sustained in a wild or uncivilized country.
It is said this action must fail because the injury satisfied neither of these conditions. A breach of such conditions was a matter of defense and could be availed .of only by being specially pleaded. This was not done.
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2Cases cited16 opinions
- Trippe v. Provident Fund SocietyNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Turner v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1897
- Young v. Travelers InsuranceSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1888
- United States Mutual Accident Ass'n v. NewmanSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
- Phillips v. United States Benevolent SocietyMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Hatch v. United States Casualty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Watkins v. United States Casualty Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1919
- Hawthorne v. Protective Ass'n of AmericaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1922
- Shafer v. United States Casualty Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1916
- Hanon v. Kansas City Life InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1933
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