Tracy v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Seitz, Chancellor:

By this action plaintiff, the insured’s widow, seeks to have this court void action taken by the deceased-insured, William M. Tracy, Sr. (sometimes called the “insured” or the “deceased”), removing plaintiff as the beneficiary of his life insurance policy and substituting the defendants, Sara Ann Bell and William M. Tracy, Jr. (sometimes called “William, Jr.”). Plaintiff claims that at the time the insured applied for the change of beneficiaries he was either:

1. Of unsound mind generally.

2. Suffering from an insane delusion which caused him to make the change in the policy.

3.…