Bergman v. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance

Plaintiff sues as assignee of a claim under a policy issued by defendant insuring against the loss of personal *104property. The complaint alleges that for a good and valuable consideration the insured named in the policy, one Mary Lou Levow Francis, had assigned to plaintiff all her right, title and interest in certain lost personal property and to insured’s claim for the loss thereof. A third defense in the answer pleads that the assignor has notified the defendant that plaintiff’s assignment, was obtained by duress and coercion and ivas without consideration and void, and that the assignor…