Union Insurance v. Barwick
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. Joseph S. Barwick brought suit against The Unioii Insurance Company of California and The German-American Insurance Company of New York, to recover upon their policies the amount of insurance written by each upon his wholesale stock of cigars and tobacco. The causes were tried together, and judgment rendered against each of the defendants.
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Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. Joseph S. Barwick brought suit against The Unioii Insurance Company of California and The German-American Insurance Company of New York, to recover upon their policies the amount of insurance written by each upon his wholesale stock of cigars and tobacco. The causes were tried together, and judgment rendered against each of the defendants. The companies prosecuted proceedings in error, and the bases were reviewed together upon the same record. Judgments affirmed. The petitions showed that Barwick had disposed of…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Ch. J.
On the 12th day of January, 1890, the defendant insured “his wholesale stock of cigars, cigarettes, snuffs, pipes, and all kinds of tobacco, including packages, cases, and boxes containing same, and other merchandise usually kept by wholesale tobacconists, all of which contained in the second story and basement, brick, composition roof, building, situate on lot A of subdivision of lots 11 and 12, block -33, Lincoln, Nebraska,” with each of *230the plaintiffs in error for the sum of $2,000, said policies to continue in force for one year. On the 17th of February, 1890, the stock of…
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