Hart v. Prudential Insurance

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover on an insurance policy issued by defendant. Defendant filed its cross-complaint demanding rescission of the policy on the ground of fraud. Plaintiff recovered the sum of $500, the face amount of the policy. From the judgment defendant appeals.

The court found as facts that on October 10, 1938, one Beaty, a solicitor of defendant, called at plaintiff’s home to solicit her to purchase a policy of insurance on the life of her daughter Laura Jene. Finally yielding to Beaty’s entreaties plaintiff signed an application for a “Twenty Year Payment Life Weekly…