Dushan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This was a suit to recover on two insurance policies, aggregating $712, and interest thereon from March 15, 1925, and twenty-five per cent penalty thereon, and premiums paid on said policies from March 15, 1925, to the date of the filing of the bill.

The bill alleged that the defendant Insurance Company had issued the policies on the life of Henry R. Smith, one in 1906, payable to his uncle, Cashion, or Nathan, Smith, and the other in 1908, payable to his mother, Mary A. Smith, but upon his marriage to complainant in June, 1908, he had the names of the beneficiaries changed, making them…