Boak v. New York Life Insurance

Citations

• 226 Pa. 493
• 75 A. 713
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 805

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life insurance — Reformation of policy — Evidence.</p> <p>Where an endowment insurance policy provides that the insured, if living, at a date specified shall be entitled to one of four benefits, and there is nothing in the policy itself to indicate that the beneficiaries, and not the insured, were to be entitled to the benefits named, a court of equity will not reform the policy so as to change the word “insured” to “beneficiaries” in the absence of evidence of the kind, quality and quantity required by a court of equity as a warrant to reform a written instrument.</p>