Court Opinion

ID: 5784974
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:57:16.827747+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:04.929008
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Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County, entered on October 12, 1971, directing the parties to proceed to arbitration, unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new hearing directed, with $40 costs and disbursements of this appeal to appellant-to abide the event. The burden was on the claimant to show that the automobile involved in the accident was an uninsured vehicle. The only evidence to establish this was a letter from the purported insurer denying coverage. The admission of the letter into evidence was plainly error, and without it the right to arbitrate was not established. Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Murphy, Steuer and Tilzer, JJ.