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[1/3] Viuda de Sindayen vs. The Insular Life Assurance Co.

[1/3] FORTUNATA LUCERO VIUDA DE SINDAYEN, plaintiff-appellant, vs. THE INSULAR LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD., defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 41702 | 1935-09-04

DECISION


BUTTE, J:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila in an action brought by the plaintiff-appellant as beneficiary to recover P1,000 upon a life insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of her deceased husband, Arturo Sindayen.

The essential facts upon which this case turns are not in dispute and may be stated as follows:

Arturo Sindayen, up to time of his death on January 19, 1933, was employed as a linotype operator in the Bureau of Printing at Manila and had been such for eleven years prior thereto. He and his wife went to Camiling, Tarlac, to spend the Christmas vacation with...