Legal Opinion

Pierce v. Security Insurance

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 8, 1919No. 15133PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Smith, J., entered April 22, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action on a fire insurance policy.

1Per curiam

This is an action upon an insurance policy issued by the defendant insurance company to J. C. Lewis, and providing that loss, if any, shall be payable to Mrs. Pierce and Lewis as their respective interests may appear. The insurance here in question is upon the same property and is concurrent with that involved in the case of Pierce v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Ins. Co., ante p. 501, 182 Pac. 586. The only question here to be considered is as to whether or not it can be decided, as a matter of law, that the insured shall be precluded from recovering under the policy because of the failure of Lewis,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Pierce v. Globe & Rutgers Fire InsuranceWashington Supreme Court · 1919

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Pierce v. General Fire Assurance Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1919

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