Fritzpatrick v. Knights of Columbus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Knights of Columbus, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 10th day of June, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 17tli day of June, 1910, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
The plaintiff, as assignee of Isabella Fitzpatrick, the beneficiary named in a certain policy of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life of John E. Fitzpatrick, brings this action to recover the amount of said policy, and the jury has found in her favor, the court denying a motion for a new trial. The defendant interposed several defenses, each one of which has been passed upon by the jury, with a conflict of evidence, under a charge to which no exception survives. Under such circumstances this court is not in a position to interfere, unless it shall appear that there…
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