Stage v. Home Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Home Insurance Company of the City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie' on the 27th day of January, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of January, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
This is an action to recover on a fire insurance policy issued by the defendant to the plaintiff. On the 11th of June, 1900, the plaintiff owned a stock of goods in a store in the town of Crittenden, in the county of Erie, and the same was insured in the Queens and Suffolk Insurance Company in the sum of $2,800, represented by three policies, one for $800. At that time the local agent of that company at Corfu, near Crittenden, at the direction of the home company, canceled the policy of $800 and, at his request to the local agent of the defendant, the policy in suit was issued in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Sternaman v. . Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1902
- Pitney v. . Glen's Falls Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Robbins v. Springfield Fire & Marine InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Thebaud v. . Great Western Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Brown v. . the Cattaraugus County Mutual Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. ReddingSupreme Court of Florida · 1904