Case Name: YEANDEL v. PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-05-16
Citations: 104 N.Y.S. 1151
Docket Number: 
Parties: YEANDEL v. PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 104
Pages: 1151–1151

Head Matter:
YEANDEL v. PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
May 16, 1907.)
Appeal from City Court of New York, Trial Term. Action by Mary A. Yeandel against the Prudential Insurance Company of America. From an order setting aside a verdict for plaintiff, she appeals.
Reversed, and verdict reinstated.
August P. Wagener, for appellant.
Campbell & Yankauer, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Upon the authority of Grogan v. U. S. Industrial Ins. Co., 90 Hun, 521, 36 N. Y. Supp. 687, the order must be reversed. The cases of Bagley v. Bowe, 105 N. Y. 171-179, 11 N. E. 386, 59 Am. Rep. 488, and Colt v. Sixth Ave. Ry. Co., 1 Jones & S. 189, cited by the court below, seem to be more favorable to the appellant's contention than to that of the respondent, so far as they have any bearing at all upon the case. There was sufficient evidence from which the jury might rightfully infer that the receipt was properly executed by the deceased, and while a comparison of the signature of the deceased as written upon the application for the policy with that upon the assignment or receipt shows dissimilarity, the genuineness of the decedent's signature to such assignment was not questioned at the trial. The order must be reversed, and the verdict reinstated, with costs.