Schefler v. Livestock & Casualty Insurance

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered on December 13, 1972, dismissing the complaint at the close of plaintiff’s case, unanimously reversed, on the law, the judgment vacated, with $60 costs and disbursements to abide the event, and a new trial directed. In this action to recover $25,000 for the breach of a livestock policy, the Trial Justice dismissed the cause of action at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence. • The policy had insured the plaintiff against the loss of a thoroughbred horse by death resulting from natural causes, illness or disease, including loss caused by…