Knuckles v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a judgment of the trial court sitting without a jury, for benefits under an insurance policy because of loss of sight. Affirmed with costs to plaintiff, Knuckles.

Knuckles, 31 at the time of his injury, was a resident of Bittle Lane, Utah, formerly of Dove Creek, Colorado. He had been employed as a miner since he left high school, at Slick Rock, Colorado, for Climax Uranium and at the time of injury for Texas Gulf Sulphur at its Kane Creek mine at Moab, Utah.

On what appears to have been supported by competent, admissible evidence, the court made findings to the…