Commercial Union Assurance Co. v. American Central Insurance Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order refusing a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMcKee, J.
— Appeal from a judgment of nonsuit in an action upon a policy of insurance.
From the record on appeal it appears that the Commercial Assurance Company issued a policy of fire insurance to W. B. Bartlett for the benefit of Alexander Forbes, doing business under the name of Forbes Brothers, upon a building known as the Eureka Odd Fellows’ Association Building in Eureka, state of Nevada, and afterward, on the same day, insured itself in the American Central Insurance Company against the risk which it had taken.
After some months the insured building was destroyed by fire. The person entitled to…
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