PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. v. CUSICK

Calendar No. 7, Docket No. 49,057.

369 Mich. 269 (1963)

120 N.W.2d 1

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. CUSICK.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip (Wellington M. Watters, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Jerry P. D'Avanzo, for defendant.


KELLY, J. (dissenting).

May 14, 1956, Jeannine M. Cusick, a 20-year-old single woman, submitted an application to plaintiff for $1,000 of insurance, naming her mother, defendant herein, as beneficiary. May 21, 1956, plaintiff issued the policy of insurance. Defendant suggested to her daughter that she submit the application, as an earlier endowment policy with plaintiff had recently matured.

Five months later (October 21, 1956) Miss Cusick died of cancer...

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