The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-06-26
UGLn STATE OF AFFAIRS
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insurance that he was in good
health AT the time the applications
We're made, were either misrepresen-
tations or Intentionally fraudulent.
They base this claim on some decis-4
ions OF certain state courts which
hold that such Representations avoid
the policy even though Mr.. Painter
had no knowledge OF the existence of
this arterial scIerosis.
This has been decided by the SUI
preme court of Maryland and hence
the efforts of the companies TO shift
the litigation TO. that state. OF
course it is true that the insurance
business in this country is a great
graft and that the money derived
therefrom is invested in banks, rail-
roads, express and telegraph COM
panies and all the great corporations
Of the country. With this in mind
Ii is easy to understand how courts
and legislatures are bought so that
such decisions as outlined above are
made possible. If this is the law the
people had better know and under
stand it. The accident insurance
company claims it is not liable be-
cause. even though Mr. Painter was
drowned, some disease contributed
to it and that such insurance is only
against accidents pure and simple 1t
claims that If Mr. Painter. was dizzy
because of this condition of the blood
vessels, which we know nothing of.
or that if he was drowned because
his strength gave out sooner than it
would if he had no diseases condi-
ton, it is not liable.
The good people of the state had
better watch the result of these con-
tentions and decisions of our courts
thereon, if the insurance is not paid,
and question all future insurance
until there is some proper legisla-
ton in this state to protect their in
terests. If you will carefully read
any life, accident, or fire insurance
policy and understand its real mean
ing, you viii justly wonder how and
under what circumstances there is
any real protection to the insured
unless the company. for the sake of
securing other business, chooses to
make payment. Policies are so word
| ed as to protect only the insurer and
not the insured.
Can Buy Amy Sort of Report
As to the contest that is going on
lin Baltimore to obtain possession Of
the organs of the body sent there for
/ analysis, there is good cause to be-
/ lieve that If the companies obtain
| them they will be able. if they
! choose, to purchase any sort of re-
port they wish in order to avoid the
payment of the@poHcies.
A Proper Precaution
1t is not because the Painter heirs
have any fear of actually what does
texist that it is making resistance to
/ this possession, but to make it i'm
| possible to find any poison or other
substance which they may dare to
/ inject into these organs. People who
will do the things that have been
dome in this case will not hesitate to
/ go further. This may appear on the
/ face of it to be an unjust suspicion
/ but If you could only know the
lengths to which they have already
gone, you would not wonder. What
do you think of people who boast of
/ intercepting and reading private tel
egrams and letters? These portions
of the remains belong to the family
| by law and the only object of taking
them away from them must be to
tgive an opportunity to find what
does not exist. The above also ex-
plains the necessity for any guarding
of the grave of the deceased. The
Eonly ghouls feared are hirelings of
insurance companies. The press has
largely magnified the facts as to this
Isituation.
/ | believe that this covers the
ground generally. I cannot attempt
/ to make reply to the innumerable
tfalsehoods the companies are paying
the newspapers to print in order to
create prejudice.