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Jenkins v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District
Apr 26, 1940
304 Ill. App. 633 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,475. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed April 26, 1940 Rehearing denied June 18, 1940

INSURANCE, § 498.6disability, sufficiency of evidence. In action against insurer to recover total and permanent disability payments, plaintiff failed to prove incapacitation where there was considerable testimony showing that plaintiff had worked as a W. P. A. laborer for more than 3 years after the accident occurred, and notice of disability as required by policy was not proven by testimony of plaintiff that he wrote a letter to the insurer, there being no statement to show that the letter was ever stamped or mailed.

See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of Lake county; Hon. RALPH J. DADY, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in this court at October term, 1939.

Krohn Mac Donald, Sidney Rothblatt and Harry Jaffe, for appellant;

Stuart B. Krohn, of counsel;

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian Platt and Hall Hulse, for appellee;

Miles G. Seeley, Albert L. Hall, Harry A Hall and Marshall Meyer of Counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed April 26, 1940; rehearing denied June 18, 1940.


Summaries of

Jenkins v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District
Apr 26, 1940
304 Ill. App. 633 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
Case details for

Jenkins v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Case Details

Full title:Robert Jenkins, Appellant, v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District

Date published: Apr 26, 1940

Citations

304 Ill. App. 633 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
28 N.E.2d 342