John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Massachusetts v. R. H. Bennett, Administrator of the Estate of Albert H. Steele, Deceased

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit upon a group life insurance policy issued to Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates and insuring the lives of its employees, including those at its Keystone mine in West Virginia. The policy provided that, as to any employee, the insurance should cease automatically upon the termination of his employment unless “he ceases active work due to sickness or injury * * *in which event the insurance, as to him, is continued for a limited period. 1 The District Court found as a fact that Steele, the employee here, ceased active work because of a disease of which he…