Conant v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lewis L. Jones, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of November, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
In the month of April, 1896, the defendant was associated with several other persons under the name of the People’s Fire Lloyds *337in the city of New York, in the business of issuing policies of fire insurance. Their general manager and attorney in fact in that business was one Benjamin T. Rhoads, Jr. A policy of fire insur-" anee was issued to James C. Bradford in the amount of $2,000 in April, 1896; it was signed by Benjamin T. Rhoads, Jr., and it contained among other things the provision that “ no action shall be brought to enforce the provisions of this policy, except as against…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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