Bird v. Mutual Union Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Mutual Union Association of Rochester, N. Y., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 21st day of July, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of August,' 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
This is an action at law brought to recover a sum contracted to be paid by virtue of a contract of insurance. The evidence given upon the trial is quite meagre and unsatisfactory in'respect of the condition of the senior life branch of the defendant at the date of the death of Thomas Bird, the insured, and prior thereto. The defendant is an assessment association, and depends for the payment of its contracts of insurance npon the sums collected from its members. It has two classes or departments of insurance; one known as class “ A,” which is a regular life department, and one known…
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