Parker v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice Mendee E. Smith.

On the 16th day of October, 1916, the respondent issued a policy of insurance upon the life of appellant in the sum of $5,000.00, payable immediately upon due proof of the death of the insured, with total and permanent disability clauses as follows:

“Upon receipt of due proof of the total and permanent blindness or deafness of the insured * * * or that he has become wholly disabled by bodily injuries, loss of reason or disease, and will be permanently, continuously and wholly prevented thereby from pursuing…