Clarke v. Travelers Insurance
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Contract upon an accident insurance policy. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1918, Chittenden County, Wilson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment lor the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the ease.
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Action op Contract upon an accident insurance policy. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1918, Chittenden County, Wilson, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment lor the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the ease. The plaintiff did many substantial acts required of him in his business so that he was not wholly and continously disabled and prevented from performing any and every kind of duty pertaining to his occupation, and therefore was not entitled ‘to recover. Bylow v. Union Casualty & S. Co., 72 Vt. 325; Brown v. U. S. Casualty Co., 95 Fed. 935;…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This is an action of assumpsit upon an insurance policy. The plaintiff had verdict and judgment below, and the case is here on the defendant’s exceptions. The plaintiff’s recovery included damages under the policy for weekly indemnity and the loss of a foot.
The case was submitted to the jury on the plaintiff’s evidence and certain documentary evidence introduced in connection with the cross-examination of the plaintiff and his wit*386nesses. Therefrom it appeared, among other things, that the plaintiff received an injury to one of his feet on September 27, 1915, from which blood poisoning ensued,…
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