Haddad v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Woods, Judge:

This is an action to recover disability benefits under a supplementary contract, issued as part of and attached to a life policy. The circuit court, hearing the case in lieu of a jury upon an agreed statement, entered judgment for the plaintiff; and from that judgment the defendant brings error.

The pertinent portions of the supplementary contract provide:

“If, * * * during the continuance of the policy in full force, due proof shall be presented during the lifetime of the Insured that prior to the anniversary of the policy nearest his sixty-fifth birthday the Insured:

A. Has become…