Hawkeye Casualty Co. v. Holcomb

In July, 1938, the United Automobile Insurance Company began the present chancery action to cancel an automobile insurance policy issued to defendants on April 2, 1938, on the ground that defendants had obtained such policy by fraud and misrepresentation. In February, 1939, the United company, with the approval of the State- commissioner of insurance, sold its property and assets to the Hawkeye Casualty Company, and an order was subsequently entered substituting the Hawkeye company as plaintiff in the present case. For sake of brevity we will refer to both the United company and the Hawkeye…