Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Co. v. Dale

Opinion of the Court by

Hobson, 'Commissioner—

Reversing.

Appellee, who was the beneficiary in a life and accident policy issued by appellant insuring the life of Walter Barnett Dale in the sum of $1,000, brought this action against appellant to recover on the policy, and judgment having been entered for the plaintiff, the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff, in her petition, set out the insuring clause of the policy, which was in these words:

“This policy insures against: (1) the effects resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes, from bodily injury sutained during the life of the policy…