Legal Opinion

People v. Knickerbocker Life Insurance

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 13, 1922PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal by the Attorney-General of the State of New York and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, on or about the 7th day of March, 1921, appointing a receiver of the assets and property of the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, and a referee to take proofs, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on or about the 28th day of April, 1921, denying the…

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Appeal by the Attorney-General of the State of New York and another from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, on or about the 7th day of March, 1921, appointing a receiver of the assets and property of the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, and a referee to take proofs, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on or about the 28th day of April, 1921, denying the motion of the Attorney-General and the State Superintendent of Insurance to vacate and set aside the said order.

1Opinion of the Court

Page, J.:

The respondent contends that the appeal from the order of April twenty-eighth should be dismissed as not appealable. *504A motion was made to dismiss this appeal on the same ground in June last and denied. (197 App. Div. 933.) The contention of the respondent in this regard requires no further comment.

The petitioner, administrator of an estate of a beneficiary of a life insurance policy in the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, applied to the court for the appointment of a receiver of said company, successor to one discharged by an order of December 23, 1887, reinstated in 1906, and…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. State Board of Insurance v. BettsTexas Supreme Court · 1958
  2. El Paso Electric Co. v. Texas Department of InsuranceTexas Supreme Court · 1997
  3. Bean v. StoddardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
  4. Commissioner of Insurance v. American Life Ins.Michigan Supreme Court · 1939
  5. In re the Liquidation of Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1938

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