Lain v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Appellants, Van V. Lain and William Lain, doing business as Lain & Son, filed a statement of claim in the municipal court of Chicago' against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a corporation, appellee. Appellants were morticians, and claimed to be entitled to the sum of $434.77, the costs of funeral expenses of one Alice Newman, deceased. Alice Newman had a policy of insurance in the sum of $400 in appellee company, naming James Newman, the insured’s son, as beneficiary. The policy was in force at the time the insured died. After the death of Alice Newman, James Newman assigned the…