Mason v. Loyal Protective Life Insurance Company

This is a law action to recover payments claimed to be due on a policy of insurance against total disability resulting from sickness. There was a jury verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Upon this appeal defendant insurance company contends it was entitled to a directed verdict and the court erred in certain instructions to the jury. The vital question presented is the interpretation to be given the policy definition of “total disability.”

The only evidence is that offered by plaintiff, a doctor of medicine in Des Moines. Of course in considering whether the testimony presents a case for the…