Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States v. Hoover

WELCH, V. C. J.

This action was filed by Bronse Hoover against the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States to recover on a group insurance policy, as beneficiary of his deceased wife, Mrs. Gladys Hoover. This cause was tried to the court without the intervention of a jury.

The policy sued upon was a group policy issued by the Equitable Assurance Society as insurer of the Standard Oil Company and its subsidiaries. The Carter Oil Company, by whom Mrs. Gladys Hoover was employed at the time of the issuance of the policy, was a subsidiary of the Standard.

The policy provided that any…