Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Cridelle

Violette Cridelle, as beneficiary, brought suit against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to recover under a policy of life insurance the sum of $370 and also to recover penalty and attorney’s fees because of the alleged bad faith of the defendant in refusing to make payment as provided by the policy, which, under date of February 12, 1940, was issued to her deceased husband, Harry J. Cridelle. The defendant'pleaded in bar of recovery, except as to the return of premiums paid, a provision of the policy as follows: “When policy is incontestable and when voidable. This policy shall be…