Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. South

Certiorari was granted in this case, to review the following decision and judgment of the Court of Appeals: “The plaintiff was employed by a railroad terminal company as a switch-man. It took an able-bodied man with two feet and two hands to perform this work. Plaintiff was insured by the defendant insurance company against death and accident. He met with an accident which necessitated the amputation of his arm just below his shoulder. The policy provided that total disability, within the meaning of the policy, existed whenever the insured was ‘rendered wholly, continuously, and permanently…