Clark v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff, the named beneficiary in a policy of life insurance issued by defendant on the life of her husband, Edward L. Clark, recovered judgment on the policy, together with a ten per cent, penalty and an attorney’s fee under the vexatious refusal to pay statute. The defendant appeals.

It is conceded that defendant company issued a policy on the life of plaintiff’s husband on October 29, 1921, and that plaintiff was the named beneficiary therein, and that the necessary premiums thereon were paid up to January 29, 1925, but that no further premiums were thereafter paid; that the insured died…