North American Accident Insurance v. White

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

For a premium of $2 to be paid annually, the North American Accident Insurance Company, Chicago, Ill., issued and delivered to Sam White, age fifty, a resident of Paducah, Ky., a policy payable to Eunice White for $1,000, for loss of his life, “by being struck, knocked down, or run over, while walking or standing on the public highway,' by a moving vehicle, propelled by steam, cable, electricity, naphtha, gasoline, horse, compressed air, or liquid power.”

On the afternoon of the 22d day of May, 1933, White, “with a minnow bucket and fishing…