Thompson v. Colonial Assurance Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Joseph W. Thompson and Charles H. Bellows, as copartners, doing business under the firm name and style of Thompson & Bellows, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of November, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
.McLaughlin, J.:
The complaint in this action alleges that the plaintiffs, under their firm name of Thompson & Bellows, associated themselves with fourteen other persons under the name of The Individual Underwriters at Commercial Lloyds, for the purpose of doing a fire insurance business, and as such the association issued and delivered policies of fire insurance to different persons for a certain consideration, in and by which such persons were indemnified against loss by fire to an amount stated in their respective policies, each of the underwriters for himself and not for the others, being…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McMahon v. . RauhrNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
3Cited by2 opinions
- Hogan v. WilliamsNew York Supreme Court · 1945
- Wyatt v. McNameeAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906