ABSTRACT
An action was recently brought in the Superior Court (Boston, Mass.) by Laura A. Haskell, administratrix of C. W. Haskell, against the American Mutual Insurance Company, in a policy of life insurance issued by the defendants to C. W. Haskell in 1852, insuring his life in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. At the trial there was evidence tending to show that C. W. Haskell, who was a bookbinder, was a man of remarkable activity, energy, and powers of physical endurance. Mr. John P. Jewett testified that in publishing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1 / and other works, the binding had been done under the direction of Mr. Haskell, who had worked sixteen hours per diem. Mr. Haskell had not been absent from his business on account of ill health, was a man of remarkably temperate habits, and in the enjoyment of entire health up to the 13th October, 1856, when he was taken suddenly ill with vomiting, and in a few days died of a disease more closely resembling “ileus” 2 than any other. A post-mortem examination was held which disclosed the existence of a short ligamentous band in the abdomen and a small intestine glued on one side to the pelvis.
