Southern Mutual Ins. v. Yates

*This was an action of assumpsit upon a policy of insurance on a building, brought in September 1871 by Snowden Yates against the Southern Mutual insurance company. Yates obtained from the Southern Mutual insurance company two policies of insurance, numbered 1,093 and I, 093, upon two buildings at Orange Courthouse, both of which buildings were consumed by the same fire. The loss on the building secured by the policy 1,092 was paid by the company; but they contested their liability for the loss on the other building, on the ground that in his application for the policy, among the written…