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Mackenzie v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Jun 25, 1931
140 Misc. 655 (N.Y. App. Term 1931)

Opinion

June 25, 1931.

Appeal from the Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District.

Harry Wylan, for the appellant.

Alexander Green [ Peter C. Mann of counsel], for the respondent.



The policy does not contemplate payment of benefits to the assured for temporary disability. The clause providing that "total disability shall be presumed to be permanent when it is present and has existed continuously for not less than three months" was clearly intended to extend to the assured the benefits of the policy when doubt existed as to whether the disability was permanent. The plaintiff's admission that he had recovered from his disability at the time he presented his claim is, therefore, fatal to his cause of action.

Judgment affirmed, with twenty-five dollars costs.

All concur; present, LEVY, CALLAHAN and UNTERMYER, JJ.


Summaries of

Mackenzie v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Jun 25, 1931
140 Misc. 655 (N.Y. App. Term 1931)
Case details for

Mackenzie v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

Case Details

Full title:ROBERT MACKENZIE, Appellant, v. THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department

Date published: Jun 25, 1931

Citations

140 Misc. 655 (N.Y. App. Term 1931)
251 N.Y.S. 528

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