Velie v. Newark City Insurance
New York Supreme Court
Motion, by defendant to compel the plaintiff to elect between two separate statements of a single cause of action, and also to state the interest of the defendant Thompson in the insured property with- more certainty and definiteness in the Gomplaint..
1Opinion of the CourtWestbrook, J.
— The plaintiff John W. Yelie, as theassignee of Giles W. Cowley, seeks to recover of the defendant, The Newark City Insurance Company, the sum of $1,250,. with interest from January 4, 1882; that being a portion of,' the loss which Cowley is alleged to' have sustained in- the; *2destruction by fire of certain property of which he was then the owner.
The-complaint states separately two grounds or reasons for the liability of the Insurance Company: First. That such defendant, in consideration of twenty-five dollars paid to it by said Cowley, issued to him its policy of insurance by which it…
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