Buis v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

This case arose in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County. It is a suit by plaintiff against defendant for total and permanent disability, rendering him "wholly, continuously and permanently unable to engage in any occupation or perform any work for any kind of compensation of financial value during the remainder of his life," under a disability provision in a certain policy of life insurance issued by defendant to plaintiff in October, 1928.

From an adverse judgment for $1,205 including interest and for $100 penalties for delay and $250 for attorney's fees, defendant, after an unsuccessful…