Cockcroft v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Rhodes, J.,

Plaintiff is the beneficiary named in four policies of insurance issued by the defendant company on the life of her husband. Upon the death of the insured, on February 16, 1935, the defendant paid the plaintiff the face amount of the policies. Plaintiff brought this suit to recover under a rider attached or applicable to each of the policies allowing double indemnity if the insured died under the conditions therein set forth. The case was tried in the Municipal Court of Philadelphia County before a judge without a jury. The trial court made a finding in plaintiff’s favor,…