Western Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance v. Hilton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry Hilton and others, copartners, composing the firm of Hilton, Hughes & Co., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of November, 1898, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the New York Trial Term.
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Appeal by the defendants, Henry Hilton and others, copartners, composing the firm of Hilton, Hughes & Co., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of November, 1898, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the New York Trial Term. The policy referred to in the opinion was issued by a corporation not authorized to do business in the State' of New York, and the provisions of section 137 of' the Insurance Law (Laws of 1892, chap. 690) were not…
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The plaintiff, a mutual fire insurance company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Massachusetts and transacting business in that State, received at its office in Springfield, Mass., prior to February 15, 1894, an application signed by Tate & Cornwall, who appear to have been insurance brokers doing business in the city of New York, for a policy of insurance to insure' Henry Hilton arid Hilton, Hughes & Co., as interest may appear, upon a stock of dry goods contained in the building on Broadway and Ninth and Tenth streets in the city of New York, the date of the…
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