Potter v. Aetna Life Insurance

Citations

• 71 Wash. 374
• 128 P. 647
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 755

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Accident Insurance — Cause oe Death — Evidence— Sufficiency. In an action upon a policy insuring against death through accidental means, there is sufficient evidence to sustain a finding that the insured was killed by gas poisoning, where it appears that deceased, a strong healthy man, was the general overseer of an incinerator, in which there occurred imperfect combustion causing smoke to escape to the room where deceased was working on Saturday, that he complained thereof, and was taken ill on Monday morning, and experts testified that his death was caused by gas poisoning.</p>