White v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

Coleman White, a negro laborer, claims that in" the year 1931, while he was insured under a group insurance policy issued by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, he received an injury to his left leg as the result of which it became necessary that the said leg be amputated above the knee “at the lower third of the thigh." He alleges that the said injury resulted in his total permanent disability and he seeks judgment against defendant company in the sum of $2,000, the face value of the policy, maintaining that he is entitled to recover because of a clause in the policy which…