50 Ga. App. 407 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1935
R. N. Oliff Jr., by next friend, brought suit against the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company under the disability provisions of a life-insurance policy which provided that in case of total disability the company would pay the insured monthly one per cent, of the face amount of the policy. "Verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff, and the defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled. On this judgment the defendant assigns error.
The undisputed evidence shows that the policy was issued on October 1, 1926, when the plaintiff was eleven years old, and that on April 22, 1932, his right arm was amputated above the elbow. He contends that this injury resulted in total disability, under the terms of the policy and its construction by the courts. The defendant, in its general and special grounds of the motion for a new trial, contends that the evidence did not authorize a finding of total disability. In the application for insurance the plaintiff’s occupation was listed as “School boy. Now a farmer.” The evi
The evidence authorized the verdict, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for á new trial.
Judgment affirmed.