DeCesare v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover as beneficiary on an alleged contract of insurance on the life of Frank DeCesare. The trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant on the sole ground that no valid contract of insurance existed between the defendant and DeCesare, husband of the plaintiff, at the time of his death on March 31, 1927.

The plaintiff in her declaration alleged that the defendant issued to Frank DeCesare on or about February 25, 1927, a policy of insurance on his life payable to the plaintiff as beneficiary, and that on March 7, 1927, he made…