House v. Security Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Gourt. — Hon. D. V. Jackson, Judge. Suit in equity to reform a policy of fire insurance and to recover the amount thereof because of a loss thereunder.
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Appeal from Scott District Gourt. — Hon. D. V. Jackson, Judge. Suit in equity to reform a policy of fire insurance and to recover the amount thereof because of a loss thereunder. Defendant denied there was any policy to reform, pleaded that it issued .its regular- policy to plaintiff, and averred that the policy became null and void because of the making of a mortgage upon the property insured, and for the further reason that, after the issuance of the policy, the assured made a contract to sell the property to one Perry, which was in contravention of the terms of the policy, in fact issued…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiff owned a half section of land in Iowa County, valued at something like $22,000, and, wishing to make a loan thereon, he applied to one Cranshaw, who lived at Marengo, and who was a local agent at that point of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee and also the agent at the same place of the defendant insurance company. _ On behalf of the Northwestern Insurance Company Cranshaw offered to make a loan for his company upon the land to the amount of $5,000. At that time plaintiff’s improvements upon the land were insured in a local mutual insurance company, and…
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