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JEWELL v. UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY CO.

25 Wis.2d 509 (1964)

JEWELL and wife, Respondents, v. UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

November 24, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Allan & Storck of Mayville, and oral argument by Robert E. Storck.

For the respondents there was a brief and oral argument by Dorothy Walker of Portage.

GORDON, J.

"Names were made to matter," said Thomas Reed Powell, 60 Harvard Law Review (1947), 501, 503.

This case revolves upon an incorrect name used in an insurance policy. The trial court found that there was a mutual mistake which required that the policy be reformed by changing the name of the insured from Gordon Jewell to Audrey Jewell.

The appellant has undertaken to establish that this determination...

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