Hastings v. Bankers Accident Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Wright District Court. — Hon. O. G. Lee, Judge. An action at law to recover on a policy of accident insurance issued to the plaintiff by the defendant, a mutual accident insurance company organized and doing business under the laws of this State. The case was tried to the court and a judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtSherwin, J.
— 'The plaintiff alleged in his petition that an accident occurred whereby two of his ribs were broken and his sternum fractured. The policy on which the plaintiff seeks to recover provides as follows in the ninth clause or paragraph thereof:(9) After due notice and satisfactory proof that the insured during the continuation of this contract has sustained any or either of the accidental injuries named in the schedules 1 and 2, then the company will pay to him the amount indicated by the figures set opposite such injury, provided always that the indemnity shall not be payable for more than one…
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