Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 5, 1932 (DeCesare v. Metropolitan Life Insurance)

Sanderson, J.

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover as beneficiary on an alleged contract of insurance on the life of Frank DeCesare. The trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant on the sole ground that no valid contract of insurance existed between the defendant and DeCesare, husband of the plaintiff, at the time of his death on March 31, 1927.