Stone v. BENEFICIAL STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE CO.

This is an action to recover punitive damages because the defendant, according to plaintiff, wilfully and in bad faith refused to pay plaintiff the proceeds of a life insurance policy forcing plaintiff to bring an action against defendant to recover the policy proceeds.

The following facts were alleged in plaintiff’s amended complaint. On March 10, 1964 the defendant issued a $10,000 policy of life insurance to Ada Eugenia Barr. Plaintiff Margaret D. Stone was the named beneficiary of that policy. The policy was payable if the insured died as the result of an accident while riding in or…