Dewey v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action of contract upon a check drawn by the defendant upon the Metropolitan Bank of New York, dated November 24, 1914, payable to the order of John F. Ryan and Mary Dewey, for the sum of $768.98 “in full of all claims and demands under” two industrial insurance policies on the life of Ellen Dewey, the mother of the plaintiff. At the close of the testimony, on the motion of the defendant, the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant, and, subject to the plaintiff’s exception, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. “ . . . it was thereupon agreed by the parties that…