Ringstaff v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action growing out of the same group policy issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills, Incorporated, which we have had occasion to consider in the case of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Cole, 163 Va. 906, 178 S. E. 43, and Amanda Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 163 Va. 833, 178 S. E. 40, decided January 17, 1935.

William J. Ringstaff was an employee of the Cotton Mills. His wife, Lucy Ringstaff, was designated as beneficiary in his certificate of insurance. There was a jury trial. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for…