Vigue v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The defendant has appealed from a judgment holding it liable to pay $500 to the plaintiff as beneficiary of an industrial life insurance policy on the life of Rose Vigue. We are handicapped in our consideration of the ease by the manner in which the pleadings were drafted, and we are precluded from a review on the merits by the defective way in which the appeal record was prepared.

In its answer, the defendant admitted the first thirteen words of paragraph four of the complaint and denied the last twenty-two words. It then departed from the established practice of setting up matters in…