Moseley v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

1. Where an insurance policy provides for total-disability benefits when the insured has “become wholly disabled by bodily injuries or disease, and will be wholly and presumably permanently prevented thereby for life from pursuing any and all gainful occupation,” allegations in an action to recover for such benefits that the plaintiff fell to the floor at her post of duty while employed in changing and removing spools of thread from a machine at a cotton-mill, that she has since then suffered from heart failure, endocarditis, 'arthritis, asthma, and other stated complaints, traceable to said…