Moore v. Prudential Casualty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Prudential Casualty Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 3d day of March, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of March, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The defendant, an Indiana insurance company, wrote and delivered a policy of insurance to one Samuel Simpson of Kingston. The contract provided that upon the death of the said Samuel Simpson, by accidental means, it would pay to the beneficiary, the plaintiff in this action, the sum of $1,000. Simpson was killed in an accident at Waterbury, Conn., on or about the 16th day of December, 1913, while the said policy was in full force and effect, if such policy ever had a valid inception, and the plaintiff made the proper proofs of death and demanded payment of the claim, which was…
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