Goldberg v. Seneca, Sigel & Rudolph Mutual Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Byron B. Baric, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment of nonsuit. The plaintiff lived in the city of Grand Rapids and about ten miles distant from his farm in the town of Grant in the same county, upon which was a small dwelling house and barn, in the latter of which was stored a considerable quantity of hay which he desired to have insured.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Wood county: Byron B. Baric, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment of nonsuit. The plaintiff lived in the city of Grand Rapids and about ten miles distant from his farm in the town of Grant in the same county, upon which was a small dwelling house and barn, in the latter of which was stored a considerable quantity of hay which he desired to have insured. He had on other occasions and at the time in question carried insurance with said company. Some doubt having arisen as to the insurability of the barn and its contents on. account of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The defendant is a town mutual fire insurance company organized under the provisions of secs. 1927 to 1941, Stats.
Sec. 1927, relating to the organization of such corporations, provides that the persons subscribing to original articles and such as shall afterwards be insured shall be a corporation ; and sec. 1933 provides that every person to whom any policy is issued by such corporation shall be deemed a member of the same.
The plaintiff, by reason of other insurance held by him at the time of his making the application involved in this case, was a member of such defendant corporation. Being…
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