Pralle v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff brought an action to recover $10,000 which she. claimed was due her under an oral contract of insurance entered into between her husband, John H. Pralle, and the defendant Insurance Company. There was a verdict and judgment in her favor for $11,197.25 being the full amount she claimed, with interest.

August 21, 1925, plaintiff filed her declaration in which she alleged that on April 15/1925, the defendant Insurance Company orally promised to insure John H. Pralle, her husband, against accidents “until and pending…