Shea v. Manhattan Life Insurance

This is an action of contract, to recover a balance due upon two policies of life insurance for $1,000 each, issued by the defendant to one Phipps, the plaintiff’s former husband, in which the plaintiff is named as beneficiary.

The home offices of the defendant company were in the city of New York; and there was a branch office in Boston in charge of one Mosher, who, the evidence showed, was the defendant’s agent, cashier and manager, with duties fixed by the terms of his written contract of employment.

After proof of the death of the insured had been furnished to the defendant, the latter sent…