Penn v. Standard Life Insurance

Tbis is a petition to rebear tbis case, wbicb was decided by us at Fall Term, 1911, and is reported in 158 N. C. at p. 29, where tbe facts are stated. There is no new question in tbe case, as now presented, but tbe learned counsel for tbe plaintiff think that we have misapprehended tbe true nature and meaning of tbe charge of Judge Adams, who presided at tbe trial, and that, if properly construed, it would deny a recovery in a case where there was a former malady and an accident and tbe latter directly produced tbe injury as tbe efficient cause thereof, provided tbe malady itself would have…