Papp v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

The defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, issued a group life insurance policy to the John A. Roebling Sons Company of Trenton, upon the lives of its employes, entitling the beneficiary designated by the employe to $1,000 at death, and $2,000 if death be due to violence. A certificate issued under the policy to John Kish, an employe, who designated Charles Getz, uncle in Roumania, as beneficiary. Kish was injured by an automobile and died seven days later in a Trenton hospital, January 1st, 1930. The day before, he designated the complainant, John Papp, as beneficiary. The request…