Providence Life Insurance & Investment Co. v. Martin

By the policy upon which this action was brought, the husband of the appellee was insured against fatal accidents, as well as those resulting only in personal injury. The assured was a locomotive engineer, in the employ of a railroad company, whose principal business is the transportation of coal from the mines in Allegany county; and, on the 21st of July, 1866, whilst backing his engine upon a down grade, with a car in front as a precaution to check the speed, he directed the fireman to run it, and went upon and over the tender to get into this car to draw the brakes, and in doing so slipped…