Sloan v. Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America

CHESNUT, District Judge.

This ease was tried at Cumberland at the last May Term of court and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $20,500 in a suit upon two accident insurance policies, being the full amount (without interest) claimed by the plaintiff as payable thereunder for the loss of one eye by accidental means. The defendant duly filed a motion for a new trial and counsel has submitted a comprehensive brief in support of the motion.

The points urged in support of the motion are (1) that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground of false answers by the…