Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Barela

The appellant is a mutual life insurance company, and on December 31, 1923, issued a policy of group life insurance No. 2000-6 to the Southern Pacific Company, and, under date of December 31, 1923, issued its certificate serial No. 7365, showing that appellee, Placido Barela, was insured under and subject to the terms ancl conditions of the group policy in the sum of $1,500.

Appellee, Placido Barela, while engaged as a machinist in the Texas & New Orleans Railway shops in El Paso, Tex., and during the life of the policy and his certificate, had his right hand injured by having it cut by a…