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Tierney v. Helvetia Swiss Fire Insurance

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

Decided May 1, 1908PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal by the plaintiff, John J. Tierney, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 22d day of November, 1907.

1Opinion of the Court

Rich, J.:

7 \ This appeal is from an order vacating a judgment entered upon default of the defendant in answering, in an action brought to recover the aggregate amount of fourteen separate judgments recov*447ered against the defendant by different plaintiffs in the United States Circuit Court for the northern District of California and thereafter assigned to the plaintiff, a resident of the State of H ew York. The record discloses the following facts: The action was commenced on September 25, 1907, in the Supreme Court of Kings county by the service of the summons and complaint upon the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Powers v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
  3. Insurance Company v. PechnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  4. Pechner v. . Phoenix Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
  5. Cooke v. . State National Bank of BostonNew York Court of Appeals · 1873

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance v. StevensSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. Weaver Construction Co. v. District CourtSupreme Court of Colorado · 1976
  3. Halliburton v. Illinois Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1935
  4. Southern Pac. Co. v. WaiteDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1922
  5. Grazi v. Douglaston Estates, Inc.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1959

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