Bentley v. Protective Life Ins. Co.

FOSTER, Justice.

The question in this case is simply whether an occupational disease, which disqualifies a man from performing that certain occupation, is a total and permanent disability so as to prevent him from engaging in' any gainful occupation within the terms of an insurance policy, when such disease exists only as an incident to such occupation while so employed, and clears up after he has terminated the employment.

To state the situation concretely, it appears that appellant was employed as a pressman on a newspaper; that he had been so employed about - thirty-four years when his…