Lewis v. Liberty Industrial Life Ins. Co.

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an action by a curatrix of an interdicted woman, to recover certain disability payments alleged to be due the interdict under a policy insuring her against disability from sickness or accident, subject to the conditions expressed in the policy. The defenses are:(1) That insanity is not a sickness within the contemplation of the contract.(2) That the contract expressly requires the claimant to be confined to her bed, as a condition precedent to recovery, and that the insured has not been confined to her bed.

There was judgment in favor of the defendant, dismissing the…