Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Durkin

We have presented to us for determination a matter of statutory construction which reaches us as the result of a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the case of Paris v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (167 F. 2d 834, certiorari denied 335 U. S. 827). That *383decision reversed a declaratory judgment of the District Court (68 F. Supp. 64) and remanded the cause to that court “ with directions to retain the bill pending the determination of proceedings to be brought with reasonable promptness in the New York Supreme Court in conformity with this opinion.” (167 F. 2d…