Hassing v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York

WADE, Justice.

The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, a corporation, the defendant and appellant herein, had issued three life insurance policies on the life of Clifford E. Hassing, wherein Chloie P. Hassing, the plaintiff and respondent herein, was named as beneficiary in each. Hereafter in this opinion these parties shall be called plaintiff and defendant, respectively.

Clifford E. Hassing died as the result of being run over by a train and plaintiff filed three suits on the three insurance policies issued by the defendant to recover under the double indemnity provisions of these…