Ensign v. Travelers Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Columbia on the 12th day of November, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of November, 1919, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The plaintiff has recovered a judgment for the loss of the life of her husband, Edwin W. Ensign, on two policies of insurance issued by the defendant. One is an accident and health policy, the other is an accident policy. The only question raised by the defendant on this appeal is that Mr. Ensign is not dead or if dead he did not accidentally die. After a *370careful analysis of the evidence I reach the conclusion that it justifies the finding of the jury that he was accidentally burned to death as claimed by the plaintiff.
Mr. Ensign was an undertaker by occupation. He married the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- The ConquerorSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Brehm v. Great Western Railway Co.New York Supreme Court · 1861
- People v. VanderhoofMichigan Supreme Court · 1888
- People Ex Rel. Third Avenue Railroad v. State Board of Tax CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
- Hoffman v. Lehigh Valley RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
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- Trimble v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1949