Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Phillips

The appeal is from a judgment for accrued benefits under a policy compensating the insured if totally and permanently disabled. Ther'e was an intervention by Vance M. Thompson with which we are not concerned. The only question is whether the trial court abused its discretion in declining to direct the plaintiff (appellee Phillips here) to subject himself to an X-ray examination in Little Rook or Pine Bluff. It was stipulated that physicians in Sheridan were not equipped with necessary appliances. Phillips claimed to be suffering from a peptic ulcer of the duodenal cap.

Suit was brought in.…