Ohio Casualty Insurance Company v. Heaney

ROBSON, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment of its nonliability under a policy of insurance of an aircraft which crashed in Lake County, Illinois, on May 2, 1959, causing the death of the pilot and injuries to three others. The pilot’s ad-ministratrix and the injured passengers are named herein as defendants, as well as the insured, the owner of the craft.

The basis of the plaintiff’s assertion of noncoverage is that the pilot was not at the time of the crash in possession of a medical certificate showing that he had passed a medical examination within the immediately…