Bridges v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

More than 10 years before the fire, the occasion of this suit, one Robinson, a bank cashier, maintained an insurance agency, representing defendant and other insurance companies. Afterwards, some four years before the fire, he sold his interests in .the bank and agency to one Kennedy, who became cashier and agent. Plaintiffs allege that at the beginning of this period each orally “contracted with the said agency of the defendant to keep his property, hereinafter described, insured at all times against loss,” etc.; that, in accordance with said agreement, the defendant did, from year to year,…