LIFE &C. INS. CO. OF TENNESSEE v. Brown

According to the allegations of the petition, the insured husband of the plaintiff beneficiary while eating a noonday meal experienced severe pain in the abdominal region and upon going to the hospital it was found that he was suffering from acute appendicitis. Approximately 7 hours after he felt the pain he was prepared for an operation for appendicitis. While being administered ether he vomited and the food particles in his stomach which had not properly digested and which had not been sufficiently masticated lodged in his windpipe, causing anoxemia of the brain, thus depriving his brain of…