Kronk v. Birmingham Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 172. Covenant on a policy of fire insurance by John F. Kronk and C. Conway, for use of Caroline Kronk, for use of Adam Bonscheiner, against The Birmingham Fire Insurance Company.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 172. Covenant on a policy of fire insurance by John F. Kronk and C. Conway, for use of Caroline Kronk, for use of Adam Bonscheiner, against The Birmingham Fire Insurance Company. At the trial before Bailey, J., it appeared that on the 13th of April 1875, said company issued a policy of insurance to O. Kronk, wife of John F. Kronk, and O. Conway, to indemnify them against loss or damage by fire to the amount of $1250, on merchandise and household goods in a certain hotel, kept by said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
The policy in suit was issued April 13th 1875, by the Birmingham Fire Insurance Company to Caroline Kronk and O. Conway, indemnifying them against loss or damage by fire to the amount of $1250. One week thereafter, Conway, with the consent of the company, endorsed on the policy, assigned his interest therein to Mrs. Kronk, thus vesting in her the sole ownership of the policy. The property, consisting of merchandise and household goods, was subsequently destroyed by fire, without the fault, so far as appears, of any of the parties interested in the policy.
The plaintiffs introduced testimony,…
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