Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. McDonald

The plaintiff McDonald, a carpenter by occupation, living at Aurora, Colorado, held an accident and health policy of indemnity issued by the defendant company. Among other things it provides that any accidental injury to the insured, resulting in septicaemia, shall be classed and paid *310for as sickness or illness as set forth in paragraphs “H” and' VI”, which read:

“Part H. Confining Illness, Twenty-four dollars per week. For total disability of one day or more resulting from sickness originating after thirty days from date of this policy, and confining the insured continuously within doors,…