Knorr v. Bates
New York Court of Common Pleas
Actions by Knorr against Bates and others, and by the same plaintiff against Atkins and others. Defendants demur to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
These actions are brought upon policies of fire insurance annexed to and made part of the complaints to which the demurrers are interposed. In each action the defendant who alone appears and demurs is one of the members of certain respective firms acting as attorneys in fact for the underwriters by whom the insurance was assumed. No claim is made, nor well can be, that the allegations of the pleadings are insufficient to constitute a cause of action were the policies in suit not embodied by intrinsic reference, the ground of the demurrers being that a defense is disclosed, available to these…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hurst v. . LitchfieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1868
3Cited by11 opinions
- Leiter v. BeecherAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1896
- Ralli v. HillyerCity of New York Municipal Court · 1895
- Lawrence v. SchaeferNew York Supreme Court · 1897
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- Compton v. BeecherAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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