Fricke v. Mutual Life Insurance

*526The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This was an action upon the permanent disability clauses in three life insurance policies issued by defendant to plaintiff. The jury answered special questions and returned a general verdict for defendant, on which judgment was rendered. Plaintiff has appealed.

The pertinent facts may be stated as follows: Plaintiff, fifty-four years of age at the time of the trial in November, 1939, was reared on a farm in Brown county. He reached only the fifth grade in school. He had been a farmer all his life; had never qualified himself for other…