Guerin v. New York Life Insurance

Defendant issued to plaintiff’s testate two policies of insurance, dated respectively June 18, 1919, and December 24, 1925. Insured died J une 25, 1938. The present application is for summary judgment upon the causes to recover the proceeds of extended term insurance arising out of those contracts. The proof is fully documented. No factual issue is presented.

The allegations are that at the time of the claimed lapse of each policy, the insured having made no election, the company, automatically continued or became obligated to automatically continue the insurances in their face amounts for…