Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Cleveland's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless—

Reversing.

Ethel Cleveland’s administrator recovered a judgment against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for $484 on an industrial life policy. On this motion for an appeal, the conclusions reached by the court on the various questions raised by appellant will be noticed in their, order without an elaborate statement.

The mother of the insured, although one of the heirs at law, and as such testifying for herself, is nevertheless a competent witness as to conversations and transactions occurring in her presence, between the insured and the agent of…