Milwaukee Trust Co. v. Lancashire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: R. NT. Austin, Judge. This was an action on seventeen separate insurance poli•cies, set out in the pleadings, issued to George Enger and August Kress, partners, doing business under the firm name •of Enger, Kress Co., on or about July 29,1893, upon their certain real estate and appurtenances, machinery, and appliances, patterns, stock in trade, manufactured and in process of manufacture, etc., etc., all…
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: R. NT. Austin, Judge. This was an action on seventeen separate insurance poli•cies, set out in the pleadings, issued to George Enger and August Kress, partners, doing business under the firm name •of Enger, Kress Co., on or about July 29,1893, upon their certain real estate and appurtenances, machinery, and appliances, patterns, stock in trade, manufactured and in process of manufacture, etc., etc., all described in six items. These several companies were all joined in one action, under ch. 235, Laws of 1893. On October…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNEY, J.
In the view which we feel compelled to take of this case, it will be necessary to consider but one of the several defenses insisted on by the several insurance com*199panies wbo have answered and actively defended this action. We tbink that the fifteen policies severally issued by the companies referred to were avoided by the operation and effect of the voluntary assignment, executed and delivered by the insured, the Enger-Kress Company, to the assignee, Winterhalter, and accepted by him, about two weeks before the fire that caused the loss, and which embraced all the property insured by said…
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