Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This matter comes before us on appeal of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, defendant, from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank, administrator of the estate of Charles Patterson, deceased, in the municipal court of Chicago for the sum of $851.60, the proceeds of two industrial life insurance policies held by the deceased in the defendant company. The policies in question were of that class intended to facilitate the payment of funeral expenses and doctors’ bills upon the death of the deceased and contained what is known as the “facility of payment…