Northrup v. Germania Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. Action on a policy of insurance on certain buildings, and machinery and fixtures therein, in Winneconne. On the trial, the court nonsuited the plaintiff.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. Action on a policy of insurance on certain buildings, and machinery and fixtures therein, in Winneconne. On the trial, the court nonsuited the plaintiff. This appeal is by the plaintiff from the judgment of nonsuit. upon the question of agency, argued that it could not be seriously claimed that because an insurance agent had the keys of property left with him, he was incompetent to insure it; thát such control of the property 'was not inconsistent with his duty to the company, but was in fact safer and better for the company; that it is a…
1Opinion of the CourtLtoh, J.
The testimony tended to show that the plaintiff, who resided in Ripon, owned considerable real estate in "Win-neconne, including the insured property; and that, during several _vears preceding the time when such property was burned, he frequently employed one Edwards, a land agent at Winneconne, and also the general agent of the defendant company there, to collect rents and pay taxes on, and to find purchasers of, portions of such real estate. Edwards was not employed by the plaintiff as his agent in respect to such real estate generally, but was employed from time to time to do .specific…
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