McCarthy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This is an action on a policy of life insurance, the defendant'in -error, plaintiff below, being the widow of the insured and the beneficiary named in the policy. The action of the trial court assigned for error was the direction of a verdict for the plaintiff, counsel of the company insisting that the case should have been submitted to the jury.

The defendant company pleaded specially — first, that the insured had died of poison intentionally self-administered, and secondly, that the beneficiary had caused the death of the *888insured byr poison,…