Metropolitan Casualty Ins. v. Shelby

Citations

• 116 Miss. 278
• 76 So. 839

Syllabus

<p>Insurance. Accident insurance. Construction. Severance of hand.</p> <p>Under an accident insurance policy providing a specific indemnity if insured should sustain the loss of a hand by severance at or above the wrist, where there was an injury to one of insured’s hands whereby he lost the use of it to a great exent, such an injury was not covered by the terms of his policy, as “severance” means the removing any thing, etc., the act of severing or dividing, or separating, the state of being severed or .separated, or the state of being disjointed or separated.</p>