Boozer ex rel. Boozer v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Supreme Court of North Carolina
1Opinion of the CourtCoNNOR, J.
The plaintiff is not entitled to recover in this action for a disability resulting from bodily injury or disease, suffered by him while insured by the defendant, unless such disability was both permanent and total.
Conceding that there was evidence at the trial tending to show that plaintiff suffered a permanent disability from disease, while be was insured by the defendant, and before be bad attained the age of 60 years, we must bold that there was no evidence tending to show that the disability was total. All the evidence shows that plaintiff was able to perform and did perform the duties of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Thigpen v. Jefferson Standard Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1933
3Cited by3 opinions
- Wright v. Prudential Insurance of AmericaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1938
- Boyd v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyMichigan Supreme Court · 1935
- Paul Revere Life Insurance v. ForesterDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1998