Bjorklund v. Continental Casualty Co.

The wife of insured, as beneficiary, brought this action to reform a policy of accident insurance, and to recover on the insurance contract as reformed. Acceptance of a policy which provided for the payment of four hundred dollars was induced, plaintiff alleged, by the fraudulent misrepresentations of the insurer’s agent that the amount payable under that policy was three thousand dollars. The trial of the cause to the court resulted in a decree reforming the policy so as to provide for the payment of three thousand dollars to the beneficiary. From judgment against the insurance company and…