Legal Opinion
Medlinsky v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided March 16, 1933PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, David C., J.
The plaintiff was the proprietor of a small tailoring shop. It was a one-man establishment. He was boss and workman, tailor and presser. For years tailoring had been his one and only means of livelihood. Apparently he never knew or followed any other.
On the 15th day of February, 1920, the defendant sold him a $1,000 fifteen-year endowment life insurance policy. Attached to and forming part of the policy is a rider designated “ Total and Permanent Disability Provision.” This rider, among other terms, contains the following: “ Doth hereby agree, that if while the above…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Silverstein v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Kratzenstein v. Western Assurance Co. of TorontoNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. v. Mayflower Gold Mining & Reduction Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
- Ginell v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
- Wigand v. . Bachmann-Bechtel Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. v. BarronSupreme Court of Georgia · 1944
- Bubany v. New York Life Ins. Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1935
- Kane v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1934
- State Ex Rel. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. AllenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1935
- Mason v. Loyal Protective Life Insurance CompanySupreme Court of Iowa · 1958
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