Craig v. United States Health & Accident Ins.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Dantzler, J., Lancaster, March term, 1907. Action by W. D. Craig against United States Health and Accident Insurance Company. From' circuit order affirming judgment of magistrate, defendant appeals. cites: Failure to give notice, as required, avoids the policy: 1 Cyc., 274; 60 At. R., 1069; 25 Pa. St., 559; 46 S. E., 678; 36 S. E., 764; 86 S. W. R., 491; 42 Fed. R., 653. Sunday is included if act is to be done in more than one zwek: 87»Wds., 152; 85 Ky., 88; 24 Am.
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Before Dantzler, J., Lancaster, March term, 1907. Action by W. D. Craig against United States Health and Accident Insurance Company. From' circuit order affirming judgment of magistrate, defendant appeals. cites: Failure to give notice, as required, avoids the policy: 1 Cyc., 274; 60 At. R., 1069; 25 Pa. St., 559; 46 S. E., 678; 36 S. E., 764; 86 S. W. R., 491; 42 Fed. R., 653. Sunday is included if act is to be done in more than one zwek: 87»Wds., 152; 85 Ky., 88; 24 Am. D., 463; 38 How., 449; 2 McC., 436; 4 Strob., 486. Notice to agent here within time was not notice to Company: 36 S. C.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The plaintiff obtained from the defendant company a policy of insurance against accident and sickness, dated 21st February, 1906, which contained these provisions: “Or, at the rate of fifty dollars per month for the number of consecutive days-, after the first week, that the assured is necessarily and continuously confined within the house and therein regularly visited by a legally qualiñed physician by reason of illness * * * ; or if during convalescence immediately following said confinement, or by reason of any non-confining…
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