MERCURY LIFE AND HEALTH COMPANY v. Morales

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Donaciano Morales, individually and as next friend of Rita Isabel Morales, his minor daughter, and Beatrice T. Morales, his wife, against Mercury Life and Health Company, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as Mercury, seeking to recover what is commonly called hospitalization benefits under a certain Family Hospital Policy issued by defendant. The trial was to the court without the intervention of a jury, and resulted in judgment in favor of plaintiffs against defendant in the sum of $549.96, from which judgment Mercury Life and Health…