Dolan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Plaintiff, as beneficiary, sued defendant life insurance company upon a life insurance policy on one Frank Lacaze. The policy was issued on February 2, 1925, and payable to the estate of the insured, but subsequently, plaintiff contends, was made payable to plaintiff as beneficiary, upon application of insured, concurred in by the insurance company. The insured died in the City of New Orleans on April 26, 1925.

At the time the policy was originally issued the age of the insured was given as forty years, but thereafter there was a correction of the age to read thirty-two years, the correction…