Murphy v. Travelers Insurance

This is a suit to recover benefits under the provisions of two policies of accident insurance. At the close of all the *42evidence both parties moved for a directed verdict. The trial court sustained the motion of the defendant and entered a judgment against the plaintiff. From this judgment the plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff was a dentist. For twenty years prior to the date of the alleged accident he had used an X-ray machine .in the practice of his profession. In taking X-ray photographs it had long been his practice to insert the index finger of his left hand in the patient’s mouth in order…