Haack v. Midwest Life Insurance

This is a suit upon an accident policy for the loss of an eye. Defendant’s motion for directed verdict was overruled, and a verdict returned for $890.04, with $250 attorney fees. Defendant appeals.

Plaintiff sued on an accident policy of $2,500 issued by defendant, for which the premium was $1.32 a month,, and which provided for one-third of the face of the policy for the loss of an eye. Plaintiff ran the shoe shop in the basement of Magee’s store in Lincoln, and while operating a sand emery wheel on a lathe on August 10, 1933, dirt and sand flew up in his face, and some of it lodged in his…