Life & Casualty Insurance v. Crowe

Birdsong, Judge.

This case involves a suit on an insurance policy. The facts show that as early as 1970 or 1971 appellee’s wife, Mrs. Crowe, suffered from a fairly severe underbite. She complained of difficulty in properly masticating her food which occasionally prevented her from retaining all the food in her mouth while chewing because of the jut of her lower jaw beyond the upper row of teeth. There was some evidence that such a physical defect may be congenital although it may also be caused by a medically determina ble disease or by trauma. There is no evidence in the record, however, that…