Legal Opinion

Edwards v. Sun Insurance

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 31, 1903PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Now. E. D. Wood, Judge. The court erred in refusing to give defendant’s second instruction. No notice to Edwards, plaintiff, of the cancellation of the policy was necessary.' Gillett v. Ins. Co., 73 Wis. 203; Antes v. Ins. Co., 84 N. W.-412; Hocking v. Ins. Go., 42 S. W. 451; Holbrook v. Ins. Co., 49 Pac. 555; Bank v. Ins. Co., 49 Pac. 688; Richmond v. Ins. Co., 33 Ark. 786; Ins.

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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Now. E. D. Wood, Judge. The court erred in refusing to give defendant’s second instruction. No notice to Edwards, plaintiff, of the cancellation of the policy was necessary.' Gillett v. Ins. Co., 73 Wis. 203; Antes v. Ins. Co., 84 N. W.-412; Hocking v. Ins. Go., 42 S. W. 451; Holbrook v. Ins. Co., 49 Pac. 555; Bank v. Ins. Co., 49 Pac. 688; Richmond v. Ins. Co., 33 Ark. 786; Ins. Co. v. Wolff, 54 N. E. 722. (1) Defendant’s first instruction was properly refused. A mere custodian of an insurance policy is not the person upon whom notice of…

1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.

In some respects this action resembles the ease by the same plaintiff against the Home Insurance Company, heretofore decided by this court (100 Mo. App. 695), but in vital points is materially different.

*47The Sun Insurance Company on April 12, 1901, issued a policy of insurance for $2,500 on the buildings of the American Base Ball & Athletic Exhibition Company of St. Louis to be in force from April 17, 1901 to April 17,1902. Roeslein & Robyn, who are insurance agents and brokers in the city of St. Louis and local agents of the Sun Insurance Company in said city, issued the policy in question.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Edwards v. Home InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903
  2. Rothschild v. American Central InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Cherokee Life Ins, Co. v. BrannumSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
  2. Waterloo Lumber Co. v. Des Moines InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1912
  3. McDonald v. North River InsuranceIdaho Supreme Court · 1923
  4. Andrews v. Minter Coal & Coke Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1929
  5. Jordan v. Commeroial Union Fire Ins. New York.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1936

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