Tierney v. Helvetia Swiss Fire Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
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 7th day of March, 1910, granting leave to the defendant to serve an amended answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J.:
Defendant is a foreign corporation created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Republic of Switzerland. Plaintiff brings this action as the assignee of fourteen separate judgments recovered by various plaintiffs against said defendant in the Circuit Court of the United States for the.northern district of California. The summons -in this action- was served on the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York on the 25th day of September, 1907. Defendant asks leave to serve an -amended answer, setting up as an affirmative defense that on the 22d day of June,…
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