Aldrich v. Mercantile Mutual Accident Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover $3,000 on a certificate of membership in the defendant association, issued to John A. Aldrich, for the benefit of his wife, Sarah E. Aldrich. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff, reported the case for the determination of this court. The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The certificate of membership in the defendant association permitted an employment different from that designated as the regular or usual employment of the assured in his application and in the certificate. If injured while thus engaged, temporarily or otherwise, in an employment classified by the association as more hazardous than the one thus stated as the regular employment of the insured, the indemnity to be paid in case of death was to be at the rate specified for the occupation in which he was at the time of the injury actually engaged. In his application, the insured, who was in the…
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