Hall v. American Employers Liability Insurance

Lumpkin, Justice.

The American Employers Liability Insurance Company issued to Walter Hall a policy of insurance, the portions of which now material are briefly stated in the head-note. It will be observed that the obligation of the company, in case of injury to the insured, was to pay to him the weekly indemnity stipulated for in the policy. There is nothing in the policy binding the company to pay this indemnity to the heirs or representatives of the insured, or to any person other than himself. The policy obviously contemplated that if he was injured in the manner therein specified, but not…