Brady v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

On May 12, 1941, Evelyn Jean Brady filed a complaint in equity in the circuit court of Rock Island county, Illinois, in which she alleged the issuance, by the defendant appellant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of five supplementary contracts of insurance aggregating $26,000, which the defendant company agreed to pay to the plaintiff, (as a beneficiary under said policies,) in the event that the death of Joseph L. Katz occurred as a result, and in consequence of bodily injuries, effected solely through external, violent and…