Alcamo v. Motorists Casualty Insurance

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after a jury had returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant in the amount of four hundred and fifty ($450) dollars. These are the germane facts of the case:

The plaintiff, Erasmo Alcamo, owner of a Ford automobile truck, applied for membership in the Motor Club of New Jersey on July 3d, 1931. Membership in this association carried with it, as one of the benefits, a policy of insurance in the defendant company, upon payment of an additional fee which covered the cost of such insurance. The receipt given him, upon making his…