McNeil v. Cobb
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, J. Hunting Cobb and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 22d day of August, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of April, 1918, denying defendants’ motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes, with notice of an intention to bring up for review an intermediate order entered in said…
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Appeal by the defendants, J. Hunting Cobb and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 22d day of August, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of April, 1918, denying defendants’ motion for a. new trial made upon the minutes, with notice of an intention to bring up for review an intermediate order entered in said clerk’s office on the 22d day of August, 1917, directing that plaintiff recover interest computed by the court in…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The complaint alleges that the defendants are husband and wife; that on or about October 10, 1900, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company issued two policies upon the life of Perley M. McNeil, the plaintiff’s husband; that one of these policies was payable to the estate of the insured, and the other to this plaintiff; that at the same time the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York issued two policies upon the life of plaintiff’s husband, one of them payable to his estate and the other to the plaintiff herein; that on or about April 30, 1904, plaintiff’s husband was the…
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- Kelsey v. . WesternNew York Court of Appeals · 1849
- Truesdell v. . SarlesNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
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