Lachs v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.

Plaintiff, as beneficiary of an insurance policy, sues defendant, insurer, for $25,000, the principal amount of airline trip insurance which one Sadie Bernstein procured as applicant from an automatic policy vending machine of defendant on December 16, 1951, at Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey, claiming that the policy insured the applicant against loss of life while a passenger on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Miami, Florida, on a plane operated by Miami Airlines, Inc. The plane crashed and Sadie Bernstein was killed shortly after the plane left Newark Airport on the above date.

Defen…