Massachusetts Mutual Accident Ass'n v. Dudley
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on a verdict in an action on a policy of accident insurance. The facts are sufficiently stated in tlie opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
This is a suit instituted on what is known as a policy of insurance or assurance against accidents. And the only question in the case which has been brought up for our consideration by the bill of exceptions is that of the admissibility of a certain deposition allowed to be read in evidence at the trial.
The policy of insurance was issued in Massachusetts, where both the appellant company, the Massachusetts Mutual Accident Association, and the appellee, L. Edwin Dudley, were resident. On March 1, 1897, four days after the issue of the policy, the appellee came to Washington to be present at…
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