MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASS'N v. HUDMAN

No. A-10594.

398 S.W.2d 110 (1965)

MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. Mary Louise HUDMAN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

December 31, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brundidge, Fountain, Elliott & Churchill, Bobby D. Dyess, Dallas, for petitioner.

Hardeman, Smith & Foy, San Angelo, for respondent.


POPE, Justice.

The question presented is whether Mary Louise Hudman, the beneficiary of an accident policy which limited coverage to death from accidental injury "independently of other causes," may recover under the policy when the insured's death resulted from the combined effects of the injury and a pre-existing disease. She obtained a judgment in a case tried before the court without a jury and the intermediate court affirmed. 385 S.W.2d 509<...

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