Cooler v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The insurance company contracted to pay, on the death of the insured, a certain sum “to the executor or administrator of the insured,” unless payment be made by it under a so-*225called facility-of-payment clause, providing that “The company may make any payment or grant any non-forfeiture privilege herein • to the insured, husband or wife, or any relative by blood or connection by marriage of the insured, or to any other person appearing to said company to be equitably entitled to the same by reason of having incurred expense on behalf of the insured, or for his or her burial; and the production…