Hoxie v. Home Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, on a policy of insurance on a vessel, brought in the superior court for New Haven county. A new trial having been granted in the case at a former term of this court, (32 Conn. R., 21,) it was again tried to the jury before Phelps, J., and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff. The defendants moved for a new trial for errors in the rulings of the court. The case will be sufficiently understood from the former statement of the facts and -from the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
We shall consider but two of the many questions raised in this case in expressing the reasons for the conclusion to which the court has come, that a new trial ought to be granted.
During the trial of this cause the defendants, for the purpose of proving the fraudulent combination between the plaintiff and James H. Prince, set forth in their notice under the general issue, offered to prove by the plaintiff that during the period of time intervening between the commencement of the year 1857 and the year 1861, the said Prince was interested as owner in nine vessels besides the one in question ;…
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