Atlanta Acc. Ass'n v. Alexander
Decision Date | 08 June 1898 |
Citation | 30 S.E. 939,104 Ga. 709 |
Parties | ATLANTA ACCIDENT ASS'N v. ALEXANDER. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court.
1. Where one is insured against "personal bodily injuries effected *** through external, violent, and accidental means," and there is evidence tending to show that an injury received by the insured resulted from such means, the jury should determine, as a question of fact, whether the injury did result from accidental means. In the present case this issue was, under the charge of the court, fairly submitted to the jury, and there was sufficient evidence to sustain the finding.
2. The insurer is not relieved from liability upon such a policy by a clause therein providing, in effect, that the insurance should not cover "injuries or death resulting from, or caused directly or indirectly, wholly or in part, by disease or bodily infirmity, hernia, *** rupture," etc although the injury received may have produced hernia, which caused the death of the insured.
Error from city court of Atlanta; H. M. Reid, Judge.
Action by Sallie M. Alexander against the Atlanta Accident Association. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Affirmed.
Burton Smith and Frank Gordon, for plaintiff in error.
Vasser Woolley, for defendant in error.
1. In the case of Association v. Barry, 131 U.S. 100, 9 S.Ct. 755, it appeared that three persons jumped to the ground from a platform four or five feet high. Two of them landed safely, while Barry was injured by the jump. This seemed to have caused some disarrangement of the stomach and, after lingering nine days Barry died. There was no evidence of any thing unusual in the jump. The question was submitted by the trial judge to the jury, who found that Barry's death was caused by accident, and was the result of external, violent, and accidental means. The case was carried to the supreme court of the United States, and the judgment of the lower court affirmed. Blatchford, J., in delivering the opinion of the court, said: In the case of Insurance Co. v. Burroughs, 69 Pa. St. 43, the insured, while assisting in hauling and handling hay, sustained an injury to the abdominal muscles, producing peritoneal inflammation, which resulted in death. It was held: ...
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