Leeds v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

This is an action brought upon a life insurance policy, payable upon the death of Mabel Fernandez to her administrator or executor. A verdict was returned by ten jurors in the sum of $587.50, and in entering the judgment thereon the court awarded an attorney’s fee of $200 as part of the costs-. Defendant appeals.

Mabel Fernandez was employed at times in various restaurants, and had been carrying two life insurance policies, of the industrial type, issued by the Prudential Insurance Company of America, in the sum of $500 each, upon which she made weekly payments of premiums. In 1930 the limit…