Townsend v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. James P. Hewitt, Judge. Actions at law upon policies of accident insurance. There was in each case a trial to the court without a jury and judgment in each for the intervener. The plaintiffs appeal. As the two cases present similar states of fact and the rights of the parties turn upon the construction to be placed on like clauses in the insurance contract, they have been submitted together and will be disposed of in one opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, C. J.
On October 7, 1911, one William T. Sowers, then residing at Des Moines, Iowa, was accidentally shot, and from the injury so received he died on October 9, *7151911. At the time of his injury and death he held two valid policies of accident insurance issued to him by the defendant herein, each of which policies provided for payment to the beneficiary therein named of a death benefit in the sum of $5,000. He was an unmarried man and in the first policy known in the record as No. 4,370,676 his brother James M. Sowers was named as beneficiary, while the other policy, No. 4,406,470, was made…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Hirschl v. ClarkSupreme Court of Iowa · 1890
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