Grenon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action of assumpsit to recover disability benefits claimed to be due to plaintiff on two policies of insurance. In the Superior Court at the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence the defendant rested its case and moved for the direction of a verdict. This motion was granted and the case is in this court on plaintiff’s exception to the direction of the verdict.

The facts are undisputed. On January 28, 1927, plaintiff, a resident of the city of Woonsocket, applied for and obtained from defendant, two policies insuring his life; one in the amount of $15,000, the other in the amount of…