Kopke v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This is an action by the named beneficiary to recover on a group life insurance policy. Judgment was in favor of plaintiff, and defendant insurance company has appealed.

The evidence disclosed substantially the following facts:

In July 1943 defendant company issued its group life insurance policy covering employees of the Consolidated Flour Mills Company (hereinafter referred to as Consolidated). Among these employees was one Kopke, who was manager of Consolidated’s elevator at Pawnee Rock, and the policy in question in the amount of $2,500 was…