East v. Prudential Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 23d day of January, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Dutchess, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of January, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 23d day of January, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Dutchess, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of January, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
The subject of the action is a contract of insurance of date October 16, 1893, by which the defendant, upon the application of Abram J. Crum, and upon the conditions of the policy, promised to pay to his executors, administrators or assigns, $500 on proof of his death. The consideration of the defendant’s undertaking was the agreement of the insured to pay a weekly premium of forty cents in advance every week during the continuance of the policy, and amongst the conditions were those that if the premium should not be called for by an agent of the company on or before the day when…
2Cited by1 opinion
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