Donlan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Appeal from an order of the Appellate Term reversing on the law a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, borough of Brooklyn, for plaintiff and dismissing the complaint. The action was to recover the proceeds of three industrial policies of life insurance on the ground that payment thereof should have been made, under the facility of payment clause, to plaintiff, rather than to the Department of Welfare of the City of New York. Order unanimously affirmed, with costs. In accordance with the provisions of the facility of payment clause and section 129 of the Public Welfare Law…