Lewis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a life insurance policy brought by the son of the insured alleged to have supported her and paid her funeral expenses and to have paid all the premiums on the policy. Writ dated April 11,1899. At the trial in the Superior Court, .before Bishop, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence a life insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of one Esther Lewis, dated November 28, 1898, and proofs of the death of an Esther Lewis.
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Contract on a life insurance policy brought by the son of the insured alleged to have supported her and paid her funeral expenses and to have paid all the premiums on the policy. Writ dated April 11,1899. At the trial in the Superior Court, .before Bishop, J., the plaintiff offered in evidence a life insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of one Esther Lewis, dated November 28, 1898, and proofs of the death of an Esther Lewis. The defendant admitted that the proofs of death were in due form, but denied that they related to the person insured. Th policy was an endowment policy…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
The plaintiff had no rights under the policy sued on by him. The insured was his mother, Esther Lewis. The promise sought to be enforced in this action was a promise “ to pay . . . the amount stipulated in the schedule below,” without naming any one as the person to whom the payment was to be made. • Under the clause authorizing the company to pay this sum to “ any relative by blood or connection by marriage of the insured, or to any other person appearing to said' company to be equitably entitled to the same by reason of having incurred expense on behalf of the insured, or for his or her…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Millard v. BraytonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- McCarthy v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
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