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INDEPENDENT LIFE AND ACCIDENT INS. CO. v. WIGGINS

1 Div. 849.

139 So.2d 619 (1962)

INDEPENDENT LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY v. Ernest WIGGINS.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Montgomery, and Windell C. Owens, Monroeville, for appellant.

John M. Coxwell, Monroeville, for appellee.

CATES, Judge.

Mr. Wiggins took out a "General Accident Death Policy" issued by Independent March 29, 1954. Independent promised to pay him one-fourth the principal sum if he should suffer the loss of one eye "solely as a result of an accident after the effective date." The policy defined loss of an eye as "the permanent loss of the sight thereof."

Mr. Wiggins, in 1957, caught a cotton hook under his left eye. He went to Dr. Francis Nicholas for treatment....

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