Glickman v. New York Life Insurance

THE COURT.

This is an appeal by Sol Glickman from a judgment which was rendered against him as plaintiff in an action against the New York Life Insurance Company for rescission of a written surrender of a twenty-year endowment insurance policy, on the ground that the said surrender was procured by mistake and fraud.

In 1923, appellant, who was a native of Russia, resided in the city of New York. He was then twenty-one years of age. He had but a slight knowledge of the English language, although he later learned to read it. On February 23, 1923, at the instance of an insurance agent who was a…