Smith v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 359, Jan. T., 1907, by plaintiff, from judgment of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1906, No. 227, affirming order of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 36, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Esther A. Smith v. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. Appeal from Superior Court. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court, and by the report in 34 Pa. Superior Ct. 72. Error assigned was the judgment of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell,
Gordon took out five separate policies of insurance on his own life. No beneficiary or person to whom the insurance should be paid on the death of the insured was named in any of the policies, but in the applications for three of them, in answer to the printed question as to whom the money should be payable to, the name of his wife was written. In the other two there was not even this designation of a beneficiary, but it was conceded at the trial that the insurance was intended *228for her benefit and that the policies were handed to her by the insured. The…
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