Armstrong v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Almeron N. Armstrong, appellant’s deceased husband, was employed as a timekeeper by the StruthersWells Corporation in Titusville, Pa., from June 21,1944, to May 31,1945. In the course of his employment there was issued to him a certificate certifying that he was insured for the sum of $1000, payable to his wife as beneficiary under the usual standard policy of group insurance.

The master policy and the individual certificate contained two provisions pertinent to the issue here involved, as follows: “The insurance of an employee, shall automatically cease when . . . his…