Williams v. Southeastern Life Ins. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Eishburne.

This action was brought by the plaintiff on a certificate of insurance under a group policy issued by the defendant to the Courtenay Manufacturing Company in December, 1931. The policy contract not only insured plaintiff’s life, but it insured him against total and permanent disability.

The plaintiff had been employed as a mechanic in the machine shop of the Courtenay Company for about eighteen years prior to the commencement of the action, and, according to the allegations of the complaint, he was engaged principally in…