Eichwedel v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is a suit on an insurance policy issued by the defendant, who is represented here, on the life of Mathilda Spearow, on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1913, in Chicago, Illinois, in the sum of $500. Plaintiff, a sister of the insured, was named as beneficiary. Mathilda Spearow died on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1913, and on July 24, 1913, defendant paid plaintiff the sum of $7.44, at which time plaintiff signed a release which provided that in consideration of the above sum plaintiff released and forever discharged the defendant from all claims and demands arising under and by…