Mellen v. United States Health & Accident Insurance
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit on a health and accident insurance policy. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the April Term, 1911, Wind-ham County, Butler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. This case has been once before in the Supreme Court; see 83 Vt. 242.
1Opinion of the Court
Rowell, C. J.,
This is assumpsit on a health and accident insurance policy, which provides that no claim thereunder shall be valid unless written notice is given to the company at Saginaw, Michigan, within twenty days from the date of injury or beginning of the illness for which claim is to be made. That date *306in. this case was Dec. 31, 1903. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff tended to show that he gave the required notice within the required time by depositing it in the post office, stamped and properly adressed to the company at Saginaw. The testimony on the part of the defendant…
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