Kranzer v. Automobile Insurance

Carswell, J.:

The plaintiff is the assignee of eight insurance policies, issued by four companies. The policies covered five boats owned by the plaintiff’s assignor. All five boats were destroyed by fire at the same time and plaintiff brought eight actions, one on each policy, against the four insurance companies involved.

*867One of the actions was tried. A question of fact common to all of the actions was disposed of in that action. The attorneys stipulated that the same verdict might be directed in the other seven actions as was rendered by the jury in the case tried. The defendant now claims…