Sawyer v. Dodge County Mutual Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dodge County. Action on an insurance policy for the loss of a quantity of wheat in stacks. The defendant had judgment dismissing the complaint with costs, and the plaintiff appeals.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dodge County. Action on an insurance policy for the loss of a quantity of wheat in stacks. The defendant had judgment dismissing the complaint with costs, and the plaintiff appeals. The material portion of the policy is .as follows: “The Dodge County Mutual Insurance Company, Waupun, Wisconsin, in consideration of nineteen 50-100 dollars, by the said company received, do insure B. G. Sawyer, of the town of Chester, county of Dodge and the state .of Wisconsin, against loss or damage by fire or lightning, to the amount of thirteen hundred dollars, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.
The eminent gentleman who represented the respondent on the motion for rehearing and on the rehearing of this appeal, seems unreconciled to our construction of his client’s policy. Though the question was not left open on the rehearing, we have, in deference to his persistent dissent, again looked into the policy; and we do not see how we could have given it a different construction, without disregai’ding old rules of construction or inventing new ones for the exigencies of the case. And, after all, it seems to us that his complaint should go to his client rather than to the court, for the…
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