Brown v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

Ethridge, C.

The principal question in this case is whether appellee, defendant in the court below, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has paid properly the proceeds of two industrial life insurance policies in accordance with the provisions of a “facility of payment” clause in such policies on the life of Clarence Blakely, deceased.

This action was brought in the Circuit Court of Marion County on March 30, 1949, by Catherine Blakely Brown, daughter and administratrix of the estate of Clarence Blakely, deceased. The declaration, filed March 30, 1949, was in two counts, one on each of the two…