Cohen v. New York Life Insurance

On June 21, 1927, Sonea Koplen, widow of Samuel Koplen and the beneficiary named in defendant’s policy insuring his life, commenced a first class action in the municipal court of Chicago against defendant to recover the face amount of the policy, $3,000. On the eve of the trial, she having remarried, her name as plaintiff was changed accordingly. On the trial before a jury considerable evidence was introduced by both parties, and at the conclusion of all the evidence the court, on June 4, 1929, directed the jury to return a verdict in defendant’s favor, and, upon this being done, entered a…