Sturm v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Taylor
An accident policy, issued on March 20, 1911, to Adolph Sturm, provided that, in case of his death by accident, the amount of the policy should be payable to Pauline Sturm, the plaintiff, and Adolph Sturm having since died, the question arises whether his death was caused in such a way as to make the defendant liable under the policy. The insured died on the morning of June 6, 1914, while in a bathroom which adjoined his bedroom at his home in Chicago; and the question submitted to the jury for its consideration was whether the death of Adolph Sturm was caused by drowning. There were no…
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