Rickerson v. . Hartford Fire Ins. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made May 18, .1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the defendant, The Hartford Fire Insurance Company, dismissing the complaint, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Circuit without a jury.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made May 18, .1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the defendant, The Hartford Fire Insurance Company, dismissing the complaint, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Circuit without a jury. This action was founded upon a policy of fire insurance issued to P. Sammet and J. Alexander by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, payable to the Washington Life Insurance Company as mortgagee and as its interest might appear, upon premises known as number 160 Mótt…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
When the policy in question was issued the premises “ known as Fío. 160 Mott street ” consisted of a strip of land twenty-five feet wide, fronting to the north on said street, by one hundred and eight feet deep, upon which were certain erections, claimed by the plaintiff to have been three connected structures, divided only by interior partition walls with openings between, but which the defendant claims were two separate and independent buildings. In front was a brick building, worth $5,000, the main part of which was three stories high, and as wide as the lot, but the back part was only two…
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