Court Opinion

ID: 9642426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:57:31.848389+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:47.354498
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
The petition seeks rehearing on the issue of canceling the disability feature of the amended $2,000 policy on the ground that the trial judge decided that the suit was commenced within the two-year contestable period because, it claims, although it does not appear in the record, this was conceded below by the defendants.
The record itself, at page 88, shows affirmatively that instead of this issue being decided below on any admission of the parties, it was resolved on the court’s own construction of the policy in the following finding and conclusion of law: “That on account of the incontestability clause contained in said amendment as above set out, plaintiff was entitled to commence suit to secure the cancellation of said amendment and the surrender of the same before the expiration of two years from the date of issue of said amendment. That the date of issue of said amendment was February 6, 1931; that the above entitled suit was commenced by filing complaint herein on January 6, 1933.”
Our opinion holds this error, since our construction of the contract made the contestable period expire two years from May 27, 1930, the date of issue of the policy, and hence prior to the filing of the bill. The petition offers no argument on this point not considered in the opinion. We cannot now reopen the case and substitute for the above finding and conclusion in the record supplied us a different one, to the effect that "defendants admit the suit was brought in time.”
Petition denied.