Rosinski v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

Full title: Frieda Rosinski, Appellee, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company…

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: May 28, 1940

305 Ill. App. 626 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

27 N.E.2d 555

Opinion

Gen. No. 40,633. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 28, 1940

INSURANCE, § 498.7^_ — accidental death, sufficiency of evidence. Evidence supported finding that death of insured was accidental within meaning of double indemnity provision of life insurance policy, where doctor who performed post mortem examination testified that he found hemorrhages in the brain, and that from conditions in the brain he was of the opinion, based on reasonable medical certainty, that the changes were the result of injury, external violence.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Municipal Court of Chicago; Hon. JOHN V. MCCORMICK, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in second division, first district, this court at April term, 1939.

Hoyne, O'Connor Rubinkam, for appellant;

Nathaniel Rubinkam and Ira W. Hurley, of counsel;

Ewart Harris, for appellee.

Opinion by JUSTICE SCANLAN.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed May 28, 1940.