Green v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Mrs. Willie Green brought suit against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, as beneficiary, to recover $500 as double indemnity under an insurance policy issued to her husband, Willie Green, and also to recover damages and attorney’s fees on account of the alleged bad faith of the company in failing to pay under the double-indemnity provision of the policy, the company having paid, without prejudice to her rights, the face amount of the policy on the life of the insured. The policy provided, among other things, that “TJpon receipt of due proof that the death of the insured resulted,…