Wilson v. Central Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Central Insurance Company, Limited, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 8th1 day of February, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of February, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. ■ ,
1Dissent
Houghton, J. (dissenting):
The defendant is an English company, and on the 9th day of Hay, 1903, at London, it issued to the plaintiff, a British subject, an accident policy, providing, amongst other things, that it would pay to the insured £500 in case he received, within the life of the policy, an accident to ■ an eye which should cause .total blindness within one calendar month, and in addition would also pay his reasonable physician’s bills.
By its terms the policy covered only accidents happening in Europe, but upon the plaintiff informing the general manager of the defendant that he…
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