Jaffe v. Reliance Insurance

Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court, Ulster County Special Term, which directed that a jury demand be stricken from plaintiff’s note of issue and ordered the action be tried as a non jury case. Special Term held that plaintiff, as a matter of law, waived his right to a trial by jury by joining legal and equitable causes of action in his complaint. The complaint is of a split character. The first cause of action against the insurance company is for reformation of a fire insurance policy on the ground that the defendant Levine, as agent of the insurance company, inserted…