Cheever v. Scottish Union & National Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company of Edinburgh, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 1st day of October, 1901, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of October, 1901, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J, :
The plaintiff brings this action to recover $3,000, the amount of two policies of insurance written upon certain pictures, f urniture and other personal property contained in a summer hotel at Lynbrooke, Nassau county, N. Y. The pleadings in the case, in so far as any question of law is involved, were identical with those in the case of Cheever v. British-American Insurance Company (86 App. Div. 333), which was before this court contemporaneously with the present appeal, and the case seems to have been tried and disposed of by the jury upon the theory that the general denial…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Titus v. . Glens Falls Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Jones v. . MorganNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
- McCormick v. . Pennsylvania Central R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Cheever v. British-American InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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- Stone v. Safe Insurance Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1930
- Simon Cloak & Suit Co. v. Ætna Ins.City of New York Municipal Court · 1912