Court Opinion

ID: 9834499
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:38:26.643496+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:16.238357
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
By the terms of the contract appellant was entitled to receive on account of the disability suffered by him as found by the jury, one-half of the sum the beneficiary named in the certificate would have been entitled to had appellant died at the date of such disability. It was stipulated in the contract that should appellant die “after 18 months and before 24 months,” the society should be liable for only 99 per cent, of the amount ($3,000) named in the certificate. Appellant became disabled within the meaning of the contract more than 18 months and less than 24 months after the time the certificate was issued to him, and therefore was entitled to recover only one-half of 90 per cent, of $3,000, or $1,350, instead of $1,500, as determined by the judgment rendered here. To correct this error, the motion will be granted in so far as it is for such relief, and the judgment will be so modified as to award appellant a recovery of $1,350, instead of $1,500. In other respects the motion will be overruled.