United States v. Wiggin

This is a suit on a converted policy of war risk insurance which was kept in force by the payment of premiums until February 5, 1931. The only question raised by the appeal is whether there was sufficient evidence that plaintiff was totally and permanently disabled on that date to carry the case to the jury. We do i!ot think that there was. There is evidence which justifies the conclusion that on that date and prior thereto plaintiff was suffering from visceroptosis, or falling of the organs of the abdominal cavity, and also from hypothyroidism, and that these, together with injury to a foot…