Levic v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

There have been three trials, in the last of which, in Municipal Court of the City of New York, Fifth District, Borough of Queens, plaintiff recovered the amount due on the policy. The insured died, fifteen days after the date of the policy, of coronary thrombosis, with glomerulo nephritis as a contributory cause of death. Admittedly the nephritis was of long standing; and plaintiff’s counsel on the trial conceded that the insured was not in sound health at the time the policy was issued. Likewise it was established without dispute that the insured had been under treatment of a physician for…