Clark v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action at law, in assumpsit, to recover the amount due under the terms of an insurance policy issued by the defendant, and in which the plaintiff, now widow of the insured, was named as the beneficiary. After a jury waived hearing, by consent of the parties, the presiding justice reported the case to the law court for final determination.

The policy was written with express right of the insured to change the beneficiary, and to designate a new one “by filing written notice thereof at the home office of the company, accompanied by the policy for suitable indorsement. Such change…