Knowles v. American Insurance Co. of Boston
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Albany county. Action by Charles R. Knowles, as assignee of John J. Schermerhorn, against the American Insurance Company of Boston, Mass. Plaintiff had judgment, and defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, J.
This action is brought upon two policies of insurance issued by defendant to plaintiff’s assignor,—the first, dated December 2, 1890, for $700, upon a hop house; the second, dated March 5,1891, insuring the hops in said house, viz., $1,200 on the stock of hops grown in 1889, and $800 on the stock of hops grown in 1890. The whole property was destroyed by fire on March 16, 1891. On the trial it appeared that there was a chattel mortgage upon the crop of 1889; and the court below held that, by the terms of the policy under which plaintiff claimed, it became void as to those hops, in consequence…
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- Kenyon v. Knights Templar & Masonic Mutual Aid Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Crown Point Iron Co. v. Ætna InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
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