Selden v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The issue here involved presents no real difficulty of solution because it is governed by elementary principles of the law of contracts.

Defendant company issued to Jules B. Selden two policies of insurance against the results of bodily injuries caused by violent and accidental means; in one of them the beneficiary was Selden’s mother, in the other his estate. He died on December 31, 1941, from a gunshot wound of the head. The policies provided that affirmative proof of loss must be furnished to the company within ninety days after the date of such loss.…