Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y. v. Dowdle

This is a suit on an insurance policy to recover disability benefits, and this appeal is from a verdict and judgment in favor of the insured.

The most difficult question in the case is the one of fact, whether the insured was totally and permanently disabled; but in the decision of that question we are required to give the testimony tending to establish disability its highest probative value.

The business of the insured is that of a farm manager, and as such he has charge of a farm owned by himself, another by his wife, and a third by the R. A. Dowdle estate, in which he was interested as…