Lindsey v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This suit is brought to recover on an insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of Mary L. Woodruff. The policy was for the sum of $5000. The bill alleges that on September 8, 1926-, complainant’s decedent, Mary L. Woodruff, applied to the defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, for a $5000 ordinary whole life policy on her life, and that the application for the insurance on that plan was rejected, after the defendant’s medical examiner had thoroughly examined the applicant; that thereafter, on October 4, 1926, the defendant made complainant’s decedent a new1 offer,…