Jenkins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

June 29, 1936, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company issued an endowment policy to one Wade. The policy provided that if Wade made payment of premiums as required by the terms until he had attained to the age of seventy-nine years, it would pay him the sum of three hundred ninety-two dollars; and in the event of his death “prior to the date of the maturity of the endowment,” the company promised that “upon receipt of proofs of the death of the insured made in the manner, to the extent and upon the blanks required herein, and upon surrender of this policy and evidence of premium payment…