Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance v. Verdier
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent Circuit. *This is an action upon a fire insurance policy issued by plaintiff in error to defendants in error on their stock of goods.
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Error to Kent Circuit. *This is an action upon a fire insurance policy issued by plaintiff in error to defendants in error on their stock of goods. The policy contained a clause providing that in case of any other insurance on the property, prior or subsequent, the assured should be entitled to recover of this company no greater proportion of the loss sustained than the sum thereby insured should bear to the whole amount insured thereon, “ without reference to the date of the different policies, or their invalidity from want of notice of this or other insurance, or from the violation of any…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley, Ch. J.:
The facts in this case are stated with sufficient fullness in the opinion delivered when it was before us on a former occasion, and reported in 33 Mich., 138. The case has again been tried with the same result as before, and the question now is, whether any new showing was made on the second trial which will require a different conclusion.
The only new fact which appears to me of importance is, that the renewal policy issued by the Home Insurance Company, was actually issued before the transfer of the property covered by it to the firm of Verdier and Brown, though the premium…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance v. VerdierMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
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