Carver v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Perry A. Carver, now deceased, held a policy of life insurance with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for $5,000. In this policy and forming a part thereof was a supplementary agreement providing that in case of total and permanent disability of the insured the company would waive the payment of premiums and pay to him certain monthly benefits or income. This policy was delivered on September 7, 1927, and from that time until the trial of this case the premiums were paid.

This action was brought by Carver to recover the stipuated benefits or monthly payments which he claimed were due…