Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Attorney(S) Tanner, Sillcocks Friend [ Frederick C. Tanner Leonard M. Gardner of counsel], for the Wikler, Gottlieb Wikler [ Harry A. Gottlieb of counsel], for the See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. HYMAN FINKELSTEIN, Respondent, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant. Re 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 A.D. 634.) Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and complaint dismissed on the merits, with costs. All concur; present, CALLAHAN, FRANKENTHALER and SHIENTAG, JJ.