Block v. . the Columbian Insurance Co.

Appeal from a judgment entered upon the decision of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of New York, affirming a judgment entered upon a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, by direction of the court. The action was upon a policy of insurance. The defendant is a corporation, created by the laws of this State, and engaged in the insurance business in the city of New York. The plaintiffs are merchants, resident in the city of San Francisco, and had brokers or agents in the city of New York - by the name and style of H. Cohen & Co., by whom the policy of insurance was procured "in…