Claflin v. Commonwealth Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
ALL:.IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. Suits on three policies of insurance made by the several defendants in favor of one Frances E. Barritt on a stock of goods, and by her assigned to one Murphy with consent of defendants after an alleged sale of the goods to him. After loss Murphy assigned to the plaintiffs.
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ALL:.IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. Suits on three policies of insurance made by the several defendants in favor of one Frances E. Barritt on a stock of goods, and by her assigned to one Murphy with consent of defendants after an alleged sale of the goods to him. After loss Murphy assigned to the plaintiffs. The answers set up fraud in procuring- insurance on the goods in excess of their value, and in false representations as to their ownership; denied the injury to the amount claimed; set forth that the respective policies required the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
These actions were tried in the court below at the same time, before the same jury, and, by stipulation of parties, were heard in this court upon one record, the issues and questions in them respectively being the same.
They were originally commenced'in the District Court’of .the State of Minnesota for the County of, Ramsey, the plaintiffs in error being plaintiffs below. The suits were founded on policies of insurance against fire issued by the several defendants upon a stock of dry goods in St. Paul to Prances E. Bar-ritt, who having sold the property insured to William Murphy, assigned to…
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