Edgerly v. Farmers' Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. The petition is as follows: Plaintiff claims of the defendant, * * * and states that on the 20th day.of September, 1872, the defendant, * * * in consideration of the sum of $123 cash premium paid bi’ defendant, issued and delivered to plaintiff a policy of insurance, No. 26951, on one frame barn, $3,000; live stock, $700; and farming implements, $300, for five years from said date; by which the defendant understood and agreed to insure…
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Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. The petition is as follows: Plaintiff claims of the defendant, * * * and states that on the 20th day.of September, 1872, the defendant, * * * in consideration of the sum of $123 cash premium paid bi’ defendant, issued and delivered to plaintiff a policy of insurance, No. 26951, on one frame barn, $3,000; live stock, $700; and farming implements, $300, for five years from said date; by which the defendant understood and agreed to insure plaintiff against all loss which defendant might sustain by reason of fire or lightning to the property insured as aforesaid;…
1Opinion of the Court
Seevers, Ch. J.
I. The policy provides that “the loss or damage to be estimated according to the actual cash value of the property at the time of the loss, and to be payable ninety days after, and notice and proofs thereof made by the assured, and received at the company’s office,” and in case of loss “the assured shall forthwith give notice of any loss to the secretary of the company, and within thirty days deliver at the office of the company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, either personally or by agent, mail or express, a particular account of such loss, signed' and sworn to by them, stating whether…
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- State v. KubeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1866
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