Moore v. New York Life Insurance Company

The defendant assigns as errors, among other things, the denial of its motion for judgment as of nonsuit, the refusal to submit to the jury an issue as to whether Moore had sufficient mental capacity to change the beneficiary, and the refusal to instruct the jury that if Moore did not have sufficient mental capacity to surrender the policy' he did not have sufficient mental capacity to change the beneficiary. All of these assignments rest upon the same contention, which is that Moore' signed the request for change of beneficiary and the form for the surrender of the policy at the same time so…