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Zurich Gen. Acc. Liab. Ins. v. Bethlehem Steel

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 17, 1938
254 App. Div. 839 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)

Opinion

June 17, 1938.

Appeal from Supreme Court, New York County.

Present — O'Malley, Townley, Untermyer, Cohn and Callahan, JJ.; Untermyer and Callahan, JJ., dissent in part; dissenting opinion by Untermyer, J. [See sub nom. Zurich Gen. A. L. Ins. Co., Ltd., v. Lackawanna S. Co., 164 Misc. 498.]


Order, so far as appealed from, and judgment entered thereon, affirmed, with costs. No opinion.


I dissent in part and vote to reverse the order and judgment appealed from in so far as they limit the plaintiff's recovery, and grant judgment for the relief demanded in the complaint, for the reasons stated by Judge Hand in the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, in Anglo-Continentale Treuhand A.G., v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. ( 81 F. [2d] 11; certiorari denied Henwood, Trustee v. Anglo-Continentale Treuhand A.G., 298 U.S. 655). In addition, in our opinion, the prior judgments are res adjudicata as to those coupons now sued on which were detached from the forty bonds involved in the prior suits.

Callahan, J., concurs.


Summaries of

Zurich Gen. Acc. Liab. Ins. v. Bethlehem Steel

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jun 17, 1938
254 App. Div. 839 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)
Case details for

Zurich Gen. Acc. Liab. Ins. v. Bethlehem Steel

Case Details

Full title:ZURICH GENERAL ACCIDENT LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., Appellant, v…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jun 17, 1938

Citations

254 App. Div. 839 (N.Y. App. Div. 1938)