Short v. Great Northern Life Insurance Co.

Defendant appealed from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment non obstante or a neiv trial. It insured plaintiff against accident. The policy provided for $100 per month while wholly disabled. On September 2, 1926, plaintiff fell into an elevator shaft in a warehouse from the third to the first, floor and claims to have been seriously injured. Notice and proof of loss was promptly furnished, and defendant paid various amounts aggregating $700. It then ceased making payments. It pleaded in its answer herein “that thereafter the plaintiff was no longer disabled * * * said…