Underwood v. Greenwich Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Greenwich Insurance1 Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of April, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of April, 1900, directing judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, and also an…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Greenwich Insurance1 Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of April, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of April, 1900, directing judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, and also an appeal from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the llth day of April, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a…
1Dissent
Rumsey, J. (dissenting):
This case has been tried four times and has been to the Court of Appeals twice. The action was originally brought to recover the sum of $5,000, claimed by the original plaintiff to be the amount of an insurance made by the defendant on his property. The contract was represented by a binding slip issued on the 1st of January, 1891, in the usual form for $10,000, but it appeared that on the seventh day of January the defendant sent to the plaintiff’s agent a letter stating that the application of the plaintiff for $10,000 of insurance was declined, but that the company…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Underwood v. . Greenwich Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Van Tassel v. . Greenwich Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Van Tassel v. Greenwich InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Van Tassel v. Greenwich InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898