Smooth v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

James Smooth, alleging himself to be the beneficiary named in two policies of industrial life insurance, issued by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on the life of Virginia Dut-ton, and alleging that the said insured has died and that all necessary proof has been furnished and all requirements of the policies complied with, seeks judgment against the said company for $390.81, the amount admittedly payable under the said policies to the person rightfully entitled thereto.

Defendant resists the claim of Smooth on two grounds. It contends that under the stipulations in the…