Lowe v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The defendant has appealed from a judgment awarding benefits to the plaintiff under a disability clause contained in a life insurance policy.

The parties filed a stipulation as to the facts. The policy was issued in 1921 and was in full force and effect at the time the present action was commenced. It contains a “Total and Permanent Disability Benefit Provision” to the effect that if the assured before reaching the age of sixty years “shall become wholly and permanently disabled by bodily injury or disease sustained or contracted after the date hereof, so that thereby he will be wholly,…