Townsend v. Greenwhich Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Charles De Kay Townsend and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant,' The Greenwich Insurance Company of the City of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 19th. day of November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered hy direction of the court after a trial at the Nassau Trial Term, and also - from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the. 18th day of November, 1902,…
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Appeal by the plaintiffs, Charles De Kay Townsend and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant,' The Greenwich Insurance Company of the City of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 19th. day of November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered hy direction of the court after a trial at the Nassau Trial Term, and also - from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the. 18th day of November, 1902, directing said verdict and judgment in favor-of said defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
The plaintiffs in this action were the owners of. a certain hotel property, known as the Seawanhaká Hotel, in the town of Oyster Bay. This property was insured by the defendant, which wrote a standard policy, with a mortgagee clause, payment to be made to the defendant Louise C. Blyth in case of loss. The’, latter, at the time of the fire in which the loss in controversy was incurred, held a mortgage for the sum of $20,000 upon the premises, arid two other insurance companies stand in the same position as the defendant insurance company in this action. The defendant Louise C.…
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- Wilson v. . DeenNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Silver v. . Western Assurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1900
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