Kathleen M. Chrobak v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation

PELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from a judgment for $23,000 entered on a jury verdict in a suit on a group life insurance policy issued to the United States Civil Service Commission. The disputed question is whether the deceased federal employee, William P. Chrobak, was covered by “optional insurance” which was to become effective on “the first day [he] actually enter[ed] on duty in a pay status on or after April 1, 1970.”

While two errors relating to instructions are advanced by Metropolitan, its principal contention is that a directed verdict…