Blodgett v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co.

The defendant, State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, appeals from a judgment entered on its policies insuring the life of Richard K. Blodgett. Four of the policies were issued in 1938, two for $1000 each and two for $1100 each. A fifth policy for $1000 was issued in 1941. Blodgett disappeared in 1947. In 1959 the beneficiaries, Ruth P. Blodgett and Ralph K. Blodgett, wife and son of the insured, filed their complaint to recover the amounts of the policies based upon the presumption of insured’s death by reason of his absence for over seven years. The company…