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William McCormick, Appellant, v. The United Life and Accident Insurance Association, Respondent, 1897 — 151 N.Y. 661 · caselaw · US
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William McCormick, Appellant, v. The United Life and Accident Insurance Association, Respondent
151 N.Y. 661·New York Court of Appeals·1897·NY
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William McCormick, Appellant, v. The United Life and Accident Insurance Association, Respondent.
Reported below, 79 Hun, 340.
(Argued January 18, 1897;
decided January 26, 1897.)
Motion to discontinue the above-entitled action, without costs to either party, or to strike from the day calendar an appeal .from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court .in the first judicial department, rendered in June, 1894, which •affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a ■verdict directed by the court. •
The motion was made upon the ground that the respondent, "by an action brought by the People of the state of New York, had been dissolved, and plaintiff, by proceeding with the argument, would violate an injunction order contained in the judgment of dissolution forbidding all persons taking any further proceedings against respondent.
J. Aspinwell Hodge, Jr., for motion.
Harry Wilber opposed.
[MAJORITY]
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs.