Reeves v. Midland Casualty Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Lang-lade county: T. W. Hogan, Judge. This action was brought to recover indemnity upon a health and accident policy issued by the defendant to the plaintiff.
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Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Lang-lade county: T. W. Hogan, Judge. This action was brought to recover indemnity upon a health and accident policy issued by the defendant to the plaintiff. The policy was issued August 25, 1916. By the terms of the policy the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff full indemnity ($30 per month) “for the period during which the insured shall be necessarily and continuously confined within the house and therein regularly and personally visited by a legally qualified physician, and wholly and continuously disabled and prevented from…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 4, 1919:
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Appellant contends that the court erred in rendering judgment for full indemnity for the entire period of six months, because it .appears from the verdict that the plaintiff, was not confined within the house and therein regularly and personally visited by a legally qualified physician during the six-months period. While the jury found that he was necessarily and continuously confined within his house for a period of twenty-six weeks and three days, it also found that he visited his physician at the latter’s office at Polar, Wisconsin,…
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