Howard v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Roxie Howard, administratrix of the estate of Henry Howard, appeals from a judgment for defendant rendered by the trial judge without a jury. In 1915, Henry Howard, decedent, took out a policy with defendant company in which his mother was designated his beneficiary. In 1917, he took ont another policy in favor of Roxie Fox, wife. In 1920, he took out the two policies in dispute in the instant case; one was in the amount of $256, and the other for $192, no beneficiary being named in either policy. In 1924, he took out another policy of $500 in favor of Roxie Howard, wife, but this policy had…