Bishop v. United States Casualty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Edward B. Bishop, from an order of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, entered on the 7th day of July, 1904, sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Hooker, J.:
The defendant’s demurrer to the complaint, on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, was sustained, and the plaintiff appeals. The action was upon a health policy, issued by the defendant company. The allegation of the complaint in respect to the undertaking of the defendant is that the defendant promised, in the event of loss of time caused exclusively and directly by any of certain therein enumerated diseases, rendering the plaintiff wholly and continuously unable to transact each and every part of the duties pertaining to his…
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