Dunsmore, Receiver v. Franklin F. I. Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Simpson,

Plaintiff, as receiver of the Hastings Coal & Coke Company, hereinafter called company, brought suit on a fire insurance policy issued by defendant to him, insuring him, as receiver, in the sum of $6,000 against loss by the burning of the contents of a certain power house building, in which the personal property was after-wards wholly destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. The personalty had been in possession of plaintiff from the date of his appointment as receiver until the time of the fire, but defendant showed that the company, prior to plaintiff’s…