Sneck v. Travellers' Ins.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Monroe county. Action by Harry Sneck against the Travellers’ Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., on a policy of accident insurance. From a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial, made on the minutes of the court, defendant appeals. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtDwight, P. J.
The defendant insured the plaintiff, in the sum of §10 a week, against loss of time, not exceeding 26 weeks, resulting from bodily injuries received in a manner described, and producing a degree of disability particularly defined, and further, by its policy, undertook that, if loss, by severance, of one entire hand or foot should result from such injuries alone, within 90 days it would pay him one-third of the principal sum of §2,000, named in the policy, in lieu of such weekly indemnity. By this action, the plaintiff sought to recover under the second alternative of the above provision, and…
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