Lewis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

397 Mich. 481 (1976)

245 N.W.2d 9

LEWIS

v.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Docket No. 57761.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 26, 1976.

Rubenstein, Pruchnicki & Chittle for defendant.

Defendant's application for leave to appeal asks that we resolve a conflict between panels of the Court of Appeals on the meaning of "total and irrecoverable loss of sight of one eye"[1] in an insurance contract. In Sump v St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co, 21 Mich App 160; 175 NW2d 44 (1970), Sidney Sump suffered a reduction in vision in the left eye, correctable to 20/200. The Court of Appeals refused to…