Buckner v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN tried at August Term, 1916, of Buncombe, Adams, J., presiding, upon these issues: 1. Has the plaintiff become wholly disabled by bodily injuries, and permanently, continuously, and wholly prevented thereby from pursuing any and all gainful occupations, as alleged in the complaint? Answer: “Yes.” 2. Is the plaintiff entitled to recover of the defendant the sum of $2,000, as alleged in the complaint ? Answer: “Yes.” From the judgment rendered, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBbown, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover $2,000 on a policy of insurance issued by defendant to plaintiff, containing the following-provisions : “Upon receipt of due proof of the total and permanent blindness or deafness of the insured, or of the loss of both hands at or above the wrist, or of the loss of both feet at or above the ankle, or of the loss of one limb and one eye, or of the loss of one hand at or above the wrist and of one foot at or above the ankle, or that he has become wholly disabled by bodily injuries, loss of reason," ó'r disease, and will be permanently, continuously, and wholly…
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