Reynolds v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins.

PUTNAM, C. J. (Riley, Keniston, JJ.)

This is an action of contract to recover the sum of $250 with interest from December 26, 1939. It was presented to the trial judge, and by report to this division, on an agreed statement of facts.

The material facts are that on August 22, 1919, the defendant issued to Charles V. Reynolds a twenty-year endowment policy of insurance which provided that the defendant would pay to Reynolds, if living, ait the end of 20 years, or to his beneficiary if he had died, the sum of $2,500.

Under the heading “Total and Permanent Disability Benefit Provision” in ithe…