Arthurholt v. Susquehanna Mut. Fire Ins.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 146, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 58, on verdict for plaintiff, C. F. Arthurholt. Assumpsit on fife insurance policy. Before Mehakd, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: “ [The first question arising in the order in which we have stated the issue is as to the validity of the policy.
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Appeal, No. 146, Oct. T., 1893, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Mercer Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 58, on verdict for plaintiff, C. F. Arthurholt. Assumpsit on fife insurance policy. Before Mehakd, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: “ [The first question arising in the order in which we have stated the issue is as to the validity of the policy. First, was the payment made to W. J. McKean a sufficient payment to entitle the plaintiff to recover in this case. Whether it was or not, in the view we take of it, is a mixed question of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Arthurholt, the plaintiff, was a retail merchant in Clarksville, Mercer county; he owned the building containing his stock of goods; in January, 1892, he applied to McKean, an insurance agent in Mercer, Pa., for insurance on the building *5and goods; McKean could not place the risk in any of the companies he was agent for, so he applied to Downing, an insurance broker in Philadelphia, to get the insurance ; Downing applied by letter to the Susquehanna Mutual Insurance Company, this defendant, having its office at Harrisburg, to take a risk of $1,000 on the goods and…
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