Dickirson v. the Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co.

Plaintiff in error, on writ of certiorari being allowed, brings for review a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a judgment against it on two certain accident insurance policies for the sums of $5100, secured in the circuit court of Lawrence county by defendant in error. The policies were each for an indemnity of $2550 for total and permanent blindness in either eye, resulting from accidental means.

The evidence of defendant in error on the trial showed that on December 11, 1918, he stepped on a loose board, which tipped up and struck him on the left side of the jaw, and that about two…