West Coast Lumber Co. v. State Investment & Insurance
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the- opinion-.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
— Action upon a policy of insurance. Plaintiff had judgment, from which and from an order denying a motion for a new trial the defendant appeals.
On the eighteenth day of June, 1888, the State Investment' and Insurance Company, a corporation, the defendant herein, issued its policy of insurance against loss or damage by fire, to one E. B. Newkirk, to the amount of $1,200, upon a three-story frame store-building, situate in San Diego, California; “loss, if any, payable to West Coast Lumber Company, as their interest may appear.” The building insured was wholly destroyed by fire…
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