Goodrich v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment and order of Special Term which denied summary judgment to the plaintiff and granted the motion of the defendant for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint on the merits.

The action was instituted to recover under the principal insuring and double indemnity clauses of two life insurance policies for the accidental death of her son, Robert Heath, who was killed in Korea in 1951 when a member of his company accidentally discharged a carbine while cleaning it. Defendant insurance company pleaded payment of the face amount of the policies and affirmative…