Smith v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff's petition, as amended, asserts that on September 17, 1931, defendant issued to him a policy of life insurance for $2,000, which included benefits for total disability; plaintiff became totally disabled, made proof thereof in May 1939, electing to accept two annual installments of $1,017.20 each; the defendant paid the first installment of $1,017.20 on August 1, 1939, but refuses to pay the second one; the disability resulted from an injury to his back suffered on September 22, 1938, while in the employ of the Quaker Petroleum Company at Omaha, Nebraska, plaintiff being engaged in…