Burns v. Prudential Insurance Co.

On January 12, 1918, plaintiff, Thomas E. Burns, filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis a suit against the defendant Prudential Insurance Company, on a policy of insurance issued and delivered to Pat Kearney in his lifetime. The case was tried on an amended petition filed September 18, 1918, which, among other recitals, contained the following:

"SECOND. Facility of Payment. — The company may make any payment provided for in this policy to any relative by blood or connection by marriage of the insured, or to any other person appearing to said company to be equitably entitled to the…