Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:24:17.48777+00
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*421Petition for rehearing denied September 19, 1933
On Petition eor Rehearing
(25 P. (2d) 162)
KELLY, J.
In a motion for reconsideration of defendant’s motion for rehearing, it is again urged that the effect of the original opinion is determinative of the future liabilities of defendant.
This contention is met by plaintiff’s answering brief. We quote from it:
“The question under consideration by the supreme court was as to whether or not the appellant insurance company had, by it’s actions and conduct, waived the submission by respondent to it of monthly proofs of continued disability as a condition precedent to respondent’s right to bring an action at law to collect installments for what is termed in the policies sued on, ‘total disability’. Whether or not the respondent was permanently disabled or permanently incapacited had nothing to do with whether or not he was entitled to payment for total disability under the policies. And it would have nothing to do with the question of whether or not he was entitled to payment of total disability under the said policies in the future, as the law, as we view it, does not permit a policyholder under a policy such as those in question, to establish in one legal action the fact that he will be totally disabled in the future so as to authorize a judgment or decree that the company shall, in the future, make total disability monthly payments to him.
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“Actions for future installments of monthly disability will be on ‘different claims and demands’ from those sued upon in this action so that the estoppel can operate only as against matters actually litigated or questions directly in issue in this action. The matter of permanent disability and permanent incapacity was not actually litigated or in issue in this action.
*422“At most the question of permanent incapacity or permanent disability was only a fact in controversy, and not a fact in issue”.
With this direct assertion on plaintiff’s part as to the effect of the original opinion in reference to the issues which may be joined in future litigation between the parties hereto upon the policies in suit, which statement of plaintiff we hereby adopt as an amplification of said opinion, it must be clear that the extent and degree of plaintiff’s disability, whether permanent or temporary, total or partial, have not been adjudicated except for the purposes of the instant case.
The original opinion is hereby amplified as above set forth and the motion for reconsideration of defendant’s motion for rehearing is hereby denied.