Wilkes v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover disability benefits claimed to have become due under nine policies of insurance issued by the defendant on plaintiff’s life. The complaint sets up a separate cause of action on each policy for the monthly disability payments thereunder for the period from October, 1937, to the date of the commencement of the present action, January 18, 1938. A tenth cause of action was set forth in the complaint to recover annual dividends which accrued under the said policies during the same period, but as no proof was submitted under this cause of action we…