Bowers v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant,- the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in ' favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of. New York on the 28tli day of April, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a. trial at.the New York Trial.
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Appeal by the defendant,- the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in ' favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of. New York on the 28tli day of April, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a. trial at.the New York Trial. Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27th day of April, 1905, denying the defendants motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton,J:
The Mercantile Credit Guarantee Company, engaged in the business of insuring merchants against bad debts, on the 23d of'March, 1897, entered into a contract with the defendant, in writing, dated the sixteenth day of that month, whereby it agreed to ánd did s.ell to the defendant its good will, and agreed to turn over to it a list of *693, all policies then in force, and such books pertaining thereto as the defendant might from time to time require, and to do all in its power to induce its present policyholders to insure in the defendant company which was engaged in business of a like…
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