Glens Falls Insurance Company v. Yarbrough

TIREY, Justice.

Mrs. Yarbrough, joined by her husband, brought this action against Glens Falls Insurance Company to set aside a workmen’s compromise settlement agreement. Pertinent to this discussion plaintiffs alleged that Mrs. Yarbrough was a married woman at the time she executed such agreement without the joinder of her husband and that the instrument was, therefore, voidable as a matter of law. They further alleged that the agreement had been secured by certain misrepresentations made to Mrs. Yarbrough by a representative of the insurance carrier, which were fraudulent, and she relied…