Case Name: Hyman Finkelstein, Respondent, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1934-07-25
Citations: 152 Misc. 439
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hyman Finkelstein, Respondent, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 152
Pages: 439–440

Head Matter:
Hyman Finkelstein, Respondent, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
July 25, 1934.
Tanner, Sillcocks & Friend [Frederick C. Tanner and Leonard M. Gardner of counsel], for the appellant.
Wikler, Gottlieb & Wikler [Harry A. Gottlieb of counsel], for the respondent.
Revg. 151 Misc. 113.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Inasmuch as the insured's doctor advised him to submit to an operation for hernia, and testified that in his opinion a prudent man would have followed that advice, it cannot be held that the condition from which the insured was suffering constituted a total and permanent disability within the meaning of the policy. (See Palloni v. Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit ,Corp., 215 App. Div. 634.)
Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and complaint dismissed on the merits, with costs.
All concur; present, Callahan, Frankenthaler and Shientag, JJ.