People v. . Mercantile Credit Guarantee Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made December 1, 1900, which affirmed an order of Special Term confirming the report of a referee upon the trial of certain contested claims against the defendant.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made December 1, 1900, which affirmed an order of Special Term confirming the report of a referee upon the trial of certain contested claims against the defendant. The following questions were certified : 1. Did either of the three instruments Getz, Moses and Robie set out in the referee’s report constitute a general assignment within the meaning of the policy of the Winsted Hosiery Company, when at the time of their respective executions the property severally described…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The defendant, as its name indicates, was incorporated for the purpose of making contracts of insurance or indemnity with traders and others to protect them from loss in their business by reason of the failure or insolvency,of their customers. It seems that the company itself failed and .passed into the hands of a receiver and two of the parties who had been insured under its contracts presented claims to the receiver as creditors. The receiver rejected the claims, and upon a trial of the questions before a referee there was a report that the claims’ were not covered by the contract or policy…
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