McDowell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The petition in this case declares upon a policy of accident insurance issued by the defendant insurance company to plaintiff; alleges that plaintiff suffered an accident on April 5, 1931; that since that date he has, as a result thereof, been wholly disabled and is entitled to recover on the policy a weekly indemnity of $25 for “total disability;” that after the accident defendant accepted and allowed plaintiff’s claim for total disability, and thereafter regularly paid such indemnity up to and including March 19, 1933; that at this time payments were stopped and defendant refused to…