New York Court of Appeals December 15, 1905 (Dougherty v. . Lion Fire Ins. Co.)

Werner, J.

This action was brought to reform a fire insurance policy, and upon the contract as reformed to recover the amount of loss sustained. The reformation asked for was the insertion in the policy of the names of the plaintiffs and defendants Dougherty as beneficiaries in the place of Catharine Dougherty, deceased, the beneficiary named therein.