Wildblood v. Continental Casualty Co.

LAND, Justice.

Plaintiff, as beneficiary, sues for the payment of the face of an accident and health policy, on the ground that her husband, Walter' P.. Wildblood, had been killed as a result of an accident. The demand was resisted by defendant company, the defense being that Wildblood was killed, not accidentally, but as the result of an intentional act of a third person, whose identity is unknown; and further, that when he was killed he was under the influence of an intoxicant, and, because of the provisions of the policy to that effect, there was no liability under the policy.

Judgment was…