Continental Casualty Co. v. Peltier
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of tbe Corporation Court of tbe city of. Bristol in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtCaed well, J.
The defendant in error, plaintiff in the court below, brought this action to recover the sum of $1,500.00, the amount of a policy of insurance issued by plaintiff in error to William Pel-tier, payable to defendant in error, his wife, within a stipulated time after his death caused by accident, and the verdict and judgment in the court below was for the defendant in error for the amount of the policy, which judgment we are asked to reverse because of misdirection of the jury by the instructions given at the trial, and because the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence.
William Peltier…
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