Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. Austin

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

This is an action by a holder of individual certificates issued to him in accordance with the provisions of a group policy issued and delivered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States to the Consolidation Coal Company, insuring the lives of its employees and binding the Equitable to pay “equal month Disability-installments,” the number and amount set forth in the policy and riders thereto attached, in the event the employee, “before attaining the age of 60 becomes totally and permanently disabled by bodily injury or disease…