Dirst v. Aetna Life Insurance

Plaintiff’s petition demands judgment for $2,999.99, upon a policy of accident insurance which provided for payment of $3,750 in the event of accidental death sustained “while the Insured is operating, driving, riding in,demonstrating, adjusting, repairing or cranking a private passenger automobile of the pleasure car type.” The answer of defendant admitted that the policy was in force on December 12, 1940, the date of insured’s death; that it was notified of his death and had denied liability; it denied all other allegations of the petition; specifically denied that the insured met his death…