OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CORPORATION v. SCHACHNER

No. 5063.

70 F.2d 28 (1934)

OCEAN ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CORPORATION, LIMITED, v. SCHACHNER.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

March 30, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph F. Potter, Leslie H. Vogel, E. Douglas Schwantes, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Roger Sherman, S. Ashley Guthrie, and George E. Howell, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before ALSCHULER, SPARKS, and FITZHENRY, Circuit Judges.


ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The judgment under consideration was predicated on an Illinois policy of insurance indemnifying against accidental death or injury, issued by appellant to appellee's husband, whose death occurred January 3, 1930, from the alleged sole cause of asphyxiation occasioned by accidentally breathing atmosphere containing poisonous illuminating gas.

The suit was in assumpsit, the declaration being upon the policy and demanding judgment for...

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