Lederer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

In its broad outlines, the question of law involved upon this appeal is whether the plaintiff below, appellant herein, would have been entitled to go to the jury even if a certified copy of a death certificate, issued under Section 21 of the Act of June 7, 1915, P. L. 900, as amended May 24, 1933, 35 PS §471, had been admitted in evidence at her instance.

The action below was upon a policy of insurance issued August 26, 1929, by the defendant company, in the sum of $500, upon the life of Judith Segal and naming her sister, Emma Lederer, the plaintiff, as the…