Tompkins v. Hartford Fire Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Hartford Fire Insurance Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 27th day of July, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Dutchess County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The defendant, a Connecticut corporation, on April 15, 1895, issued a standard policy of insurance covering plaintiff’s horses, oxen, young cattle and sheep, in the town of Washington, Dutchess county, in the sum of $2,400, fixing a valuation on each class of animals. A fire occurred on November 24, 1896, by which eleven cows, two horses, one bull and one calf were destroyed. The company defends on the grounds that the policy was forfeited by the giving of chattel mortgages on the property, and the fact that a waiver was not indorsed on or added to the policy.
The plaintiff, in…
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- Allen v. German American InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Merrill v. . Agricultural Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Baker v. . the Union Mutual Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
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