Opinion · New York Court of Appeals
Reiser v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
289 N.Y. 561
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- New York Court of Appeals
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Date
- 1942-07-29
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "a contract insuring against physical disability must be reasonably construed and the meaning of the agreement must not be that of the scientist but that of the average person"
- Presence of calcium deposits which might never have become a source of physical disturbance not a disease until manifest. The meaning of the agreement must not be that of the scientist but that of the average person.
Citator
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- 14 opinions
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Finch, Rippey, Lewis, Conway and Desmond, JJ.