Deckert v. Western & Southern Life Ins.

SWINFORD, District Judge.

This is an action to recover under the disability clause in a life insurance policy.

The plaintiff, Deckert, since early youth had been engaged in the trade of tanning leather. He had become adept in operating a leather splitting machine and doing all things necessary to finish leather. In the year 1919 he entered the employ of the American Oak and Leather Company as a leather splitter. He continued in this until 1939 when he and his friend Shepherd formed a partnership known as Deckert, Shepherd and Company. This partnership was the result of the abandonment by the…