Sanders v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

MOFFAT, Justice.

Defendant Insurance Company appeals from a judgment rendered against it for $224 and interest under the accidental death benefit provision of a life insurance policy issued to plaintiff on the life of her son, Gordon Sanders, aged1 seven at the time the policy was taken out, and just over age fifteen at the time of his death on August 4, 1938. The Insurance Company paid the sum of $224 to plaintiff after receipt of proof of the death of her son, as the amount due under the policy schedules for his death, but refused to pay the double indemnity for the death alleged by…