Prudential Insurance Co. v. Sailors

It seems to us that the general rule that a cause of action of a beneficiary in an insurance policy for money payable to him by an insurance company immediately on proof of his total and permanent disability, is within the statutory limita-' tion of six years. Code, § 3-705. On such a cause of action the statute begins to run from the day on which he could have made the demand payable by presenting proper proof of the total and permanent disability, for on that date, the beneficiary, by his own act, and in spite of the debtor (insurance company), might have made the demand payable by proper…