Burges v. Jackson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry H. Jackson and others, composing the firm of Peter A. H. Jackson’s Sons, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of January, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, the jury having previously answered a certain question submitted to them, and also from an order bearing date the 30th day of December, 1896, and entered in…
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Appeal by the defendants, Henry H. Jackson and others, composing the firm of Peter A. H. Jackson’s Sons, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 7th day of January, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, the jury having previously answered a certain question submitted to them, and also from an order bearing date the 30th day of December, 1896, and entered in said clerk’s office,' denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The defendants, brokers, composing the firm of Peter A. H. Jackson & Sons, engaged in the city of New York in the business of effecting insurance, etc., were, in August, 1894, called upon by the agent of the plaintiff to procure for him insurance against loss by fire upon his barber shop, furniture, fixtures, tools, etc., in his place of business in the city of Brooklyn. Thereupon the defendants sent an application for the insurance in the Great Northern Insurance Company, of Manitoba, to one Samuel Foster, an insurance broker in the city of Chicago, who procured a policy in that…
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