Williams v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

This case, though entitled in the names of different parties, has been twice heretofore before this court. The first time it appeared as John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Williams, and McEntire v. Williams, 172 Ga. 421 (157 S. E. 494). It appeared for the second time as McEntire v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., 174 Ga. 158 (162 S. E. 134). At the first trial the case was submitted to the presiding judge, without the intervention of a jury, upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. He rendered a decree which dealt with every issue in the case (172 Ga. 426-429). The…