Prudential Insurance v. Shumaker

The Prudential Insurance Company of America, on October 29th, 1936, issued a twenty-year endowment policy in the amount of $1000 to Edith M. Baker of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The beneficiary named in the policy was Carrie H. Shumaker, mother of the insured, and appellee in this case.

The insured died at her home on February 24th, 1937, from a cause undisclosed by the record, while the policy was in full force and effect, but appellant refused to pay the amount named therein to the beneficiary. This suit followed and resulted in a judgment against appellant, from which the present appeal…