AETNA LIFE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. BIDWELL


241 S.W.2d 595 (1951)

ÆTNA LIFE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. BIDWELL.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 16, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Farrell, Jr. and Jack Norman, Nashville, for appellant.

Denney, Leftwich & Glasgow, Nashville, for appellee.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

Mrs. Thacker was accidentally killed while riding on a pleasure trip in a one-half ton pick-up truck. She had an accident insurance policy issued to her, a resident of Tennessee, by the AEtna Life Insurance Company. That policy agreed to pay the beneficiary therein named a specified amount if the insured is accidentally killed "while—riding in—a private passenger automobile of the pleasure car type". The policy provided that the term...

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