Cornell v. Le Roy
New York Supreme Court
This was an action on a policy of insurance, tried at the Kings circuit in May, 1830, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the circuit judges. The insurance was on a dwelling house of the plaintiff, situate in Brooklyn. The policy was underwritten by the Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company.
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This was an action on a policy of insurance, tried at the Kings circuit in May, 1830, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the circuit judges. The insurance was on a dwelling house of the plaintiff, situate in Brooklyn. The policy was underwritten by the Alliance British and Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company. Bum insured @7,500, for one year from 22d July, 1828. The house was burnt 16 January, 1829, and to recover the loss this suit was brought against the defendants’ agents of the company, who, by arrangement, assumed the place of the Company. Eight days previous to the fire, the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sutherland, J.
The objection to the notice and proof delivered by Mr. Robinson, on the 16th January, 1829, the day after the fire, on the ground that they were not *165piven in the name of the assured, is without foundation, Mr. Robinson acted as the attorney and agent of Mrs. N. who had a mortgage upon the premises consumed, and to whom the policy in question had been assigned as collateral security, with the written consent of the defendants. The 9th condition attached to the policy provides, “ that all persons insured by the company, and sustaining loss, or damage by fire, are…
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