Kingsland v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has appealed from a judgment against it and in favor of Christina Kingsland, beneficiary under two policies of life insurance issued to her husband, Alvin Kingsland, deceased.

The policies which form the basis of the judgment were originally straight life insurance policies, but in 1929, prior to the death of the insured, the company added to all such policies a rider supplementing the benefits thereof as follows:

“Upon receipt of due proof that the insured * * * has sustained * * * bodily injuries, solely through external, violent and…