Clayton v. Industrial Life Insurance

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

These appeals are from refusal of the court below to enter judgment n. o. v. for the defendants after verdicts of the jury for the plaintiff, the beneficiary of a life insurance policy and of a beneficial certificate. The cases were tried together and will be treated as one appeal, the evidence being the same and the same question being involved: Did the plaintiff have an insurable interest in the life of the insured, her blood uncle?

Prior to 1914 and until 1934, the insured resided with the plaintiff and her husband and their children in the city of Chester. The insured…