Morris v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

Lizzie Gilbert died at her domicile in the City of New Orleans on the 27th day of January, 1938. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had issued a policy to her worth, with certain enhancements such as interest and a “mortuary benefit”, $123.-40. Charles Morris, Lizzie Gilbert’s paramour, or, as he is styled in the pleadings, her “common-in-law husbánd”, opened her succession and endeavored unsuccessfully to have himself appointed administrator, the Court subsequently designating Albert W. Newlin, the public administrator, for that office. Morris then filed suit in the…