Case Name: Mary Kaufman and Others, Respondents, v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Appellant, and Abraham Rosenfeld and Ida Rosenfeld, as the Executors, etc., of Sarah Rosenfeld Kaufman, Deceased, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1942-03-16
Citations: 263 A.D. 1005
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary Kaufman and Others, Respondents, v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Appellant, and Abraham Rosenfeld and Ida Rosenfeld, as the Executors, etc., of Sarah Rosenfeld Kaufman, Deceased, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 263
Pages: 1005–1006

Head Matter:
Mary Kaufman and Others, Respondents, v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Appellant, and Abraham Rosenfeld and Ida Rosenfeld, as the Executors, etc., of Sarah Rosenfeld Kaufman, Deceased, Respondents.

Opinion:
Action to reform a contract of insurance so as to provide therein for the insured's; right to change the beneficiary and, as so reformed, for payment of the proceeds; of the policy to plaintiffs, as beneficiaries, in accordance with the nomination for change of beneficiary as accepted by the insurer. Judgment for plaintiffs unanimously affirmed, with costs to plaintiffs-respondents. We reverse finding of fact numbered " LIV " and disapprove so much of conclusion* of law numbered " Eighth " as reads " in that she was not the wife of Jacob Kaufman, the insured," on the ground that there is no competent proof supporting them. No opinion. Present — Hagarty, Johnston, Adel, Taylor and Close, JJ.