105 Iowa 717 | Iowa | 1898
- -On the sixteenth day of August, 1898, the defendant issued to the plaintiff the certificate of membership in suit. It purported to provide for the payment to the plaintiff of weekly benefits in case of his disability while it was in force, and for the loss of a foot, and for other results of accidents, which need not be mentioned. On the twenty-sixth day of October, 1898, the plaintiff, while in Chicage, fell in front of a street car. It passed over him, cut off his left foot, and seriously injured the other. He claims that he was continuously disabled by the accident for a period of forty-nine weeks ; and seeks to recover one thousand, two hundred and twenty-five dollars for that disability and two thousand, five hundred dollars for the loss of the foot, with interest on both sums from the first day of October, 1894, at the rate of six per cent, per annum. The judgment rendered was for the sum of - four thousand, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents, besides costs.
VIII. The appellant complains of various portions of the charge given, and of the refusal of the court to .give certain instructions ashed, and of other rulings; but we do not find prejudical error in any of the rulings thus questioned. The controlling questions are disposed of by what we have said. — Beversed.