Still v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

Mb. JtrsTiGE Swiggabt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Complainant, John H. Still, is the holder of a life insurance contract, issued to him in 1926 by defendant, providing for monthly payments and waiver of premiums during total and permanent disability. The contract provides that such benefits shall become effective “upon receipt of due proof” of total and permanent disability, in which event the insurer shall “waive payment of all premiums payable upon this policy falling due after receipt of such proof and during continuance of such total and permanent disability.”

In January 1932, the…