Werenzinski v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Opinion by

Me. Justice Steen,

Frank Cybuck, a man without either property or income, was occasionally employed to tend the furnace in a small apartment house belonging to plaintiff Joseph Werenzinski and he also did odd jobs around the place, sleeping in one of the rooms occupied by plaintiff’s family or in the basement. He was found one evening lying in front of the boilers so horribly burned that he died immediately thereafter.

Four policies of insurance were issued by defendant on the life of Cybuck payable to his estate, but in each case the policy was assigned some months thereafter to…