Rocca v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Denis E. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff Mildred L. Rocca brings this appeal from the action taken by the trial judge when the case was tried a second time before a jury, when at the close of plaintiff’s testimony the court sustained defendant’s motion to exclude from the jury all the evidence offered and received on the part of plaintiff, and to instruct the jury to find the issues for the defendant.

The suit is based upon a claimed renewal for ten years of a term policy of life insurance on the life of Enrico F. Rocca, the plaintiff Mildred L. Rocca…