Laporte v. North American Acc. Ins. Co.

The widow of Albert Major, administering his estate in the capacity of natural tutrix of her minor children, has instituted this suit on an accident policy of insurance issued to decedent by the North American Accident Insurance Company. '

While said policy was in force, the insured was thrown from a motorcycle, knocked down, and run over by a Eord automobile at the corner of Prytania and St. Andrew streets in the city of New Orleans, and died later at the Touro Infirmary in said city.

The sole defense urged by defendant company is that the accident was not covered by the policy, as a…