Legal Opinion
Fuller v. Locomotive Engineers' Mutual Life & Accident Insurance
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 30, 1899PublishedCited by 20 opinions
Error to St. Clair; Vance, J. Assumpsit by William L. Fuller against the Locomotive Engineers’ Mutual Life & Accident Insurance Association on a policy of insurance. From a judgment for defendant on verdict directed by the court, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The plaintiff was a member of a mutual benefit association, and held a certificate which he claims to entitle him to payment of $3,000 under article 19 of the by-laws, which is as follows :
“Any member, while engaged in any lawful avocation, receiving bodily injuries which alone shall cause amputation of a limb (whole hand or foot), or total and permanent loss of eyesight, he shall receive the full amount of his policy.”
The defendant refuses payment upon the ground that the injury sustained does not bring him within the by-law, for the reason that the injury did not cause amputation of *549a whole…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Turner v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1897
- Sheanon v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
- Sneck v. Travellers' InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1895
- Lord v. American Mutual Accident Ass'n of OshkoshWisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
- Sneck v. Travellers' Ins.New York Supreme Court · 1894
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