Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Montague

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

Attached to the petition, as a part thereof, is a statement of the physician attending the plaintiff, which constitutes an essential and required portion of the proof of disability furnished by the plaintiff to the defendant. The defendant claims that it does not appear from this statement that the plaintiff is “wholly and permanently disabled,” within the meaning of the provisions of the policies with respect thereto, in that the physician, in answering the question propounded in the statement to him as to how soon, in his opinion, would the insured be…