DeRyder v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

On January 13, 1960, Jennie Mae Garner DeRyder, plaintiff, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Jennie, filed a motion for judgment in the Circuit Court of the City of Hampton seeking damages in the sum of $11,000 against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, defendant. The motion alleged, inter alia, that plaintiff was the beneficiary of a certain policy of life insurance issued by defendant on the life of Leonard Joseph DeRyder, decedent, and that defendant had wrongfully paid the proceeds of the policy to someone other than plaintiff. Upon petition of defendant the case was transferred to…