Newman v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The real controversy in this case is not between plaintiff and defendant, but between the plaintiff and the .surviving children of the insured, for whose benefit the policy was taken out and whose battle the defendant is fighting. The defendant is not a mutual benefit association. Th'e defendant is a foreign corporation duly organized and existing as a life insurance company under the laws of the State of Massachusetts. By the two policies in question, it insured the life of Eva Fell in the amounts therein stated for the benefit of her children,' but the contract of insurance reserved to the…