Stewart v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This was an action on a sickness and accident insurance policy. Judgment was for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.

The policy sued on contained a clause near the beginning of that document in which the company agreed to insure plaintiff “against loss of life, limb, sight or time, resulting directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injuries sustained through purely accidental means (suicide, sane or insane, is not covered) and against loss of time on account of disease contracted during the term of this policy, respectively,…