McMillan v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

This is an appeal by defendant Prudential Insurance Company of America from a judgment for $5,000 in favor of plaintiff-appellee Etta McMillan in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County. The judgment represented death benefits to which the court below held plaintiff was entided under a group life insurance policy issued by defendant to Certain-Teed Products Corporation, the employer of plaintiff’s husband Gerald McMillan at the time of his death.

The case was tried and comes to us on stipulated facts. Gerald McMillan entered into employment with Certain-Teed on June 17. He died 91 days later, on…