Caldwell v. Washington Fidelity National Insurance

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff, after defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied. The action was brought to recover upon an accident insurance policy issued to plaintiff by the defendant company, whereby the company undertook in case of bodily injuries sustained by him during the life of the policy, effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, to pay him certain sums of money. He alleged in his complaint that on or about the fifth day of August, 1929, while the policy was in full force, he was struck by an…