Masson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is a suit upon a policy of life insurance in the sum of $1,000 issued by defendant to Burtin F. Masson, in which plaintiff, the assured's wife, is named as beneficiary. Plaintiff recovered judgment for the amount of the policy, penalties and attorneys' fees, and defendant appeals.

Appellent has not made attack upon the petition and reference to its allegations is, at this time, unnecessary.

Counsel for appellant conceded that plaintiff made a prima-facie case, and we will not at this time state in detail the evidence offered by her. At the close of the plaintiff's case the defendant, after…