Commercial Union Assurance Co. v. Foley Bros.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $7,500 paid by plaintiff insurance companies for damage to a stock of merchandise caused by a fire negligently started by defendant companies. Prom an order, Brill, J., overruling plaintiffs’ demurrer to a portion of defendants’ answer, plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.
The facts in this case are substantially as follows: The Dickerman Investment Company, a corporation, was the owner of certain premises situated in the city of St. Paul, and known as 228-234 East Fourth street. The Dickerman Company leased the premises to the L. D. Cod-don & Company, and thereafter that company occupied the premises in the wholesale clothing trade. The Dickerman Company subsequently sold and conveyed the premises to the defendant Union Depot Company, to be used by that company in connection with adjoining property owned by it in the construction of a new depot building. After…
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- Santa Fe, Prescott & Phœnix Railway Co. v. Grant Bros. Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
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- Hartford Fire Ins. v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
- James Quirk Milling Co. v. Minneapolis & St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Hosmer v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
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