New York Life Insurance v. Lecks

The writ of error is taken to a judgment of the Circuit Court for Putnam County in favor of the plaintiff Leeks against the New York Life Insurance Company on two policies of life insurance containing disability benefit clauses under which the company agreed to pay to Leeks twelve dollars and a half each month on each policy during the lifetime of the insured, also to waive the payment of premiums if the insured became wholly and presumably permanently disabled before he became sixty years of age.

Each policy was written for twelve hundred and fifty dollars in case of death. The beneficiary…