Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Leach

Earnest E. Leacli was an employee-of the Poinsett Lumber & Manufacturing Company, and, as such, held a certificate, which entitled him to the benefits of a group life insurance policy issued by the appellant insurance company to the lumber company. The certificate was for the sum of $1,500, and ivas payable “if death occur while the employee is in the employ of the employer, or Avithin thirty-one days after the termina-, tion of his employment, provided the group policy is in force at the time of the death. ’ ’ The certificate provided, further, that if the employee became Avliolly• or…