Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Borsje

This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Shelby county, Tennessee, to recover five thousand' dollars, being the proceeds of a life insurance policy for said amount, and also to recover the statutory penalty of twenty-five per cent. To the dec laration the defendant (we will designate the parties according to their status in the court below) interposed certain pleas.

A trial was had of the cause and this trial resulted in a hung jury and mistrial.

Thereafter another trial of the cause was had, and this time the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant for…