Bethke v. Cosmopolitan Life Insurance

Plaintiff sued defendant in the municipal court of Chicago on two life insurance policies in which Otto J. Bethke, her husband, was the insured. The case was tried by the court without a jury. Judgment was entered against the defendant for $2,476.40, being the amount of the policies and interest, from which the defendant appealed.

Plaintiff in her statement of claim alleged that June 20, 1927, the American Benefit Life Insurance Company issued to Otto J. Bethke its two policies of insurance in the sum of $1,000 each, payable to plaintiff; that July 1, 1929, the defendant, in consideration of…