Brown v. Travelers' Life & Accident Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Travelers’ Life and Accident 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 Kings on the 3d day of December, 1897, upon the verdict of a. jury for $851.25, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of December, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
Charles O. Brown, the plaintiff, brought this action to recover-the sum of $750 for services alleged to have been rendered the, defendant at the request of its attorney, Frank V. Johnson, in. investigating the causes which led to the collapse of the Ireland building, and in attendance and giving expert testimony at the, coroner’s investigation of the accident. The Travelers’ Life and Accident Insurance Company, the defendant, issued its policy of' .insurance, undertaking to protect the firm of J. B. & J. M. Cornell,, which furnished the structural iron for the Ireland building,…
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