Bending v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the trial court in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff, Amanda Bending, was the beneficiary under an accident insurance policy issued in 1931 to her son, Robert L. Bending, now deceased, in the sum of $1,000, on which the premiums had been fully paid at the time of the insured’s death. In September 1942, Robert L. Bending was inducted into the military service of the United States and in June 1943, while stationed at Port Bliss, Texas, he obtained a two-day leave of absence and while at a hotel in El Paso was accidentally killed by…