Bernstein v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

These twelve actions, by consent heard together before three referees, come up on defendants’ exceptions to acceptances of their reports. The exceptions are practically *391identical except that in the two Maccabees cases additional errors are claimed. The suits were brought to recover upon life insurance policies and benefit certificates on account of the alleged death of one Charles J. Bernstein, formerly of Bangor.

The principal contention of all defendants is that the record does not disclose a sufficient quantum of proof of death of the insured. Without extended reports the referees found…