Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States v. Snipes

Opinion of the Court by

Creal, Commissioner

Reversing.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States is appealing from a judgment recovered "by Norman Snipes for $1,750.00 payable in 60 monthly installments of $31.71 each for total and presumably permanent disability sustained by him on August 19, 1934. Appellee’s action was based on a group insurance policy issued by appellant to the Consolidation Coal Company for the benefit of the latter’s employees.

The only grounds argued and relied on for reversal are in substance (1) that the lower court should have peremptorily instructed the…