Meriwether v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

(After stating the foregoing facts.) By the written terms of the agreement the company promised to pay only the executor or administrator of the insured; in other words, the estate of the insured was the designated beneficiary. In such a case, the general rule is that even a sole heir at law can not maintain suit upon the policy, although it may be alleged that the estate owed no debts and there was no administration. Brown v. Mutual Life Insurance Co., 146 Ga. 123 (90 S. E. 856). In the present case there was a provision usually termed a “facility of payment” clause, providing that the…