Malone v. New York Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was a suit to recover on a double liability provision of a life insurance policy, and from a judgment for plaintiff the defendant appeals. Although the overruling of its motion for a new trial is specified as error, the specifications more particularly relied on consist of claimed errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence and in instructions to the jury.

For our purposes it is sufficient to say that one Harry R. Malone, son of the plaintiff, had a life insurance policy in the defendant company which provided for double indemnity…