Kentucky Life & Accident Insurance v. Franklin
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 84 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAR FROM IIICFMAN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The provision of the policy that the assured is to be indemnified against loss of time in a sum not exceeding $25 per week, or the money value of his time for such period of continuous total disability as should immediately follow the accident, not exceeding fifty two consecutive weeks, means tliat the company will, at the termination of the total disability, or the expiration .of the fifty-two' weeks, if the…
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Case 84 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAR FROM IIICFMAN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The provision of the policy that the assured is to be indemnified against loss of time in a sum not exceeding $25 per week, or the money value of his time for such period of continuous total disability as should immediately follow the accident, not exceeding fifty two consecutive weeks, means tliat the company will, at the termination of the total disability, or the expiration .of the fifty-two' weeks, if the total disability should continue that long, pay to the assured in one single payment the money value of his time while…
1Opinion of the Court
JÜDGE HAZELRIGG
peliveked the enion of the court.
This action was brought by appellee for indemnity under an “accident” insurance policy issued to him by the appellant, in which he was insured as a “grocer, with desk and counter duties..” He was seriously injured on March 24, 1894, by the accidental discharge of a shot gun in his own hands, or which fell from his own hands, while out hunting birds and other game.
The provisions of the policy are to the effect that if the *514insured sustains bodily injuries, effected through external, violent! and accidental means, which alone produced death, the…
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