Case ID: ind-app_29/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pobinsoh-, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Phœnix Accident, etc., Association v. Horton.
    [No. 3,502.
    Filed May 27, 1902. ]
    
      Insurance. — Complaint.—Exhibit.—A complaint in an action before a justice of the peace on an insurance policy is not bad as against a demurrer for failure to make the application an exhibit, p. 198. Appeal and Error.— Conflicting Evidence. — A judgment will not be reversed on conflicting evidence, p. 199.
    
    From Allen Circuit Court; JE. O’Rourke, Judge.
    Action by Julius C. Horton against the Phoenix Accident and Sick Benefit Association on a policy of insurance. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    
      R. S. Robertson and W. S. O’Rourke, for appellant.
    
      W. C. Ryan and G. J. Ryan, for appellee.
   Pobinsoh-, J.

«-Suit commenced before a justice of the peace on a policy of insurance. The complaint was not bad against a demurrer for failing to' make a copy of the application, made by appellee for insurance, an exhibit. It is well settled that in such a case the application, or a copy, though made a part of the policy by its terms, need not be filed with the complaint. Pennsylvania, etc., Ins. Co. v. Wiler, 100 Ind. 92, 50 Am. Rep. 769; Continental Life Ins. Co. v. Kessler, 84 Ind. 310; Phenix Ins. Co. v. Stark, 120 Ind. 444; Indiana, etc., Ins. Co. v. Byrkett, 9 Ind. App. 443.

Moreover, under the very liberal rules of pleading in justices’ courts, we think the complaint sufficient to apprise appellant of the nature of the claim, and that a recovery would, bar another suit for the same cause of action. See Metropolitan, etc., Ins. Co. v. Bowser, 20 Ind. App. 557, and cases cited.

The evidence is conflicting, but, as there is some evidence to sustain the trial court’s conclusion, we can not weigh the evidence to determine whether such conclusion has a preponderance in its support.

Judgment affirmed.