Creighton v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This action is brought to recover disability benefits payable under a supplemental contract of insurance issued by the defendant on June 25, 1930, in the event the plaintiff should become totally disabled “ as the result of bodily injury or disease occurring after the issuance of said policy.” By stipulation it is admitted that the alleged disability is the result of tuberculosis which originated, to the plaintiff’s knowledge, prior to the issuance of the policy; that the plaintiff was under treatment for this disease at a sanitarium from January 22, 1929, to June 9,1930, and that the disease…