Ireland v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

The plaintiff brought this action for the sum of one thousand dollars, she being the beneficiary-named in an insurance policy for that amount. The trial was to the court with a jury, and a verdict was returned in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of one thousand dollars. The defendant moved (a) for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict; (b) for a new trial; and (c) in the alternative, for a judgment against it, notwithstanding the verdict, in the sum of $306, the amount of the paid-up insurance at the time the policy lapsed. The court overruled the first two motions and granted the third.…