Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. Cranford

This is an appeal from a judgment for five thousand dollars against the appellant, Massachusetts Protective Association, in favor of Mrs. Sallie L. Cranford, on an accident and health policy of insurance issued by appellant and payable to the appellee in the event of the accidental death of Daniel W. Cranford, her husband (death by suicide excluded). The policy provided for an indemnity of fifty dollars per week for disability on account of injury or disease.

The declaration charged that the appellant insurance company was indebted to appellee in the sum of five thousand dollars upon the…