Washburn-Crosby Co. v. Home Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed at first in the Superior Court on July 3, 1903, removed to and filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 25, 1906, and amended by leave of that court on November 24, 1906, against the Home Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York and having a usual place of business in Boston, and the Boston and Maine Railroad, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, to compel the defendant insurance…
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Bill in equity, filed at first in the Superior Court on July 3, 1903, removed to and filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on October 25, 1906, and amended by leave of that court on November 24, 1906, against the Home Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York and having a usual place of business in Boston, and the Boston and Maine Railroad, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, to compel the defendant insurance company to pay to the plaintiff the value of six hundred and eighty-six sacks of flour which belonged to the plaintiff and…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
No case has been cited by the plaintiff where the interest of a third person in property described in a policy of insurance has been held to be covered by the policy, in the absence of a provision in the policy that it is for the *465benefit of whom it may concern, or equivalent words. The words “ in trust or on commission ” in policies issued to ware-housemen or commission merchants have been held to be equivalent words. See, for example, Johnson v. Campbell, 120 Mass. 449.
The policy in the case at bar in terms provides that it is a policy “ attaching upon the property, interests and legal…
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