Keeler v. Niagara Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dodge County. This was an áction to recover the sum of $3000 on an insurance policy, for damages caused by fire.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dodge County. This was an áction to recover the sum of $3000 on an insurance policy, for damages caused by fire. The policy under which the insurance was effected, was made on the 6th day of February, 1861, to the firm of Converse & Steveley, and extended by tlie duly authorized agent of the said Niagara Fire Insurance Company, under which policy the company insured $2,500 on said Converse & Steveley's flouring mill and machinery, known as the “ Randolph Flouring Mill,” and “$500 on grain and flour in store in said mill.” At the time of making the policy,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paine, J.
This was an action on an insurance policy, by which a flouring mill was insured. The plaintiff in error objects among other things, that the complaint was fatally defective in not showing that the owner of the property had sustained any damage. The complaint shows that the mill insured, was damaged by fire to an amount exceeding nine thousand dollars. But the counsel contends that this is not *536equivalent to an allegation that the owner was damaged, and that nothing but damage to the owner can be recovered in this action, and he says “ how inanimate property can sustain…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hough v. City Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1860
- Grosvenor v. Atlantic Fire InsuranceThe Superior Court of New York City · 1856
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- Penn Mut. Life Ins. v. Mechanics' Savings Bank & Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1896
- Miner v. Phœnix InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Shearman v. . the Niagara Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Fire Insurance Companies v. FelrathSupreme Court of Alabama · 1884
- Keith v. Royal Insurance Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
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