Anderberg v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is a submission of a controversy upon an agreed statement of facts pursuant to sections 546-548 of the Civil Practice Act in which we are asked to determine whether the defendant is obligated to pay an accidental death benefit of $2,000.

On January 24, 1929, the defendant issued a $2,000 fifteen-year endowment insurance policy on the life of William O. Anderberg. By the terms of the policy the defendant, upon surrender of the policy, promised to pay $2,000 “ to the Insured if living on the 24th day of January 1944, or to Ida Anderberg Mother Beneficiary, upon receipt of due proof of the…