Jewell v. United Fire & Casualty Co.

“Names were made to matter,” said Thomas Reed Powell, 60 Harvard Law Review (1947), 501, 503.

This case revolves upon an incorrect name used in an insurance policy. The trial court found that there was a mutual mistake which required that the policy be reformed by changing the name of the insured from Gordon Jewell to Audrey Jewell.

The appellant has undertaken to establish that this determination on the part of the trial court was against the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence. It contends that there was not clear and convincing evidence to warrant the reformation and that…