Renault v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

This action in assumpsit to recover the proceeds of three life insurance policies was brought by the beneficiary designated therein. The case was tried to a jury in the superior court and resulted in a verdict being returned for the plaintiff in the amount of $1,117.94. The defendant duly prosecuted its bill of exceptions and in this court presses the exceptions taken by it to a denial by the trial justice of its motions for a mistrial, a directed verdict, and a new trial as well as its exceptions to the refusal of the trial justice to instruct the jury in accordance with the defendant’s…