McDonald v. Helgerson

Plaintiff sought mandamus in the circuit court to compel the defendant, as commissioner of insurance, to approve, adjust, and pay to plaintiff the amount of damage done by hail to plaintiff’s growing crop in July, 1925, contending that said crop was insured under the provisions of the state hail insurance law. The defense was that the crop in question was not so insured for the season of 1925.

The facts were stipulated, and are as follows: Plaintiff owned the northeast quarter of section 26, township 99, range 78, Tripp county, on which premises one Nolan was tenant, plaintiff having' a third…