Pelican Assurance Co. v. Schildknecht
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 36. — ACTION BY CONRAD SCHILDKNECHT AGAINST THE PELICAN ASSURANCE COMPANY OP NEW YORK ON A CONTRACT OP PIRE INSURANCE.— Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Chancery Branch, First Division). Shackelford Miller, Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. — PRINCIPLES•,AND AUTHORITIES RELIED,UPON ,BY ' APPELLANT. ‘ ‘ ‘ 1. Contract must be "complete and definite.
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CASE 36. — ACTION BY CONRAD SCHILDKNECHT AGAINST THE PELICAN ASSURANCE COMPANY OP NEW YORK ON A CONTRACT OP PIRE INSURANCE.— Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Chancery Branch, First Division). Shackelford Miller, Judge. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant appeals. — PRINCIPLES•,AND AUTHORITIES RELIED,UPON ,BY ' APPELLANT. ‘ ‘ ‘ 1. Contract must be "complete and definite. “But to "entitle one to the specific performance of a verbal -agreement to insure, or to issue & policy, he must prove an oral contract of insurance, namely, the subject-matter, the risk insured against, the amount of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Lassing
Affirming.
Conrad Schildknecht is a contractor and builder in Louisville, Ky. R. 0. Breuer & Co. are general agents of appellant, the Pelican Assurance Company of New York, doing an insurance business in Louisville, Ky. On the 28th of August, 1905, appellee notified Breuer & Co. by telephone that he desired to have them insure three frame dwelling houses on Dupue street, in Louisville, which he was erecting. Some one in the ooffice of Breuer & Co. answered this telephone call, and stated to appellee that as the houses were not numbered, and the lots upon…
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