Laclede Fire-Brick Manuf'g Co. v. Hartford Steam-Boiler Inspection & Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Missouri. Action by the Laclede Fire-Brick Manufacturing Company against the Hartford Steam-Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company. Defendant obtained judgment. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
At tbe close of the plaintiff’s evidence tbe circuit court directed tbe jury to return a verdict for tbe defendant. This writ of error is sued out to reverse the judgment upon this verdict. There was but one question of fact in tbe case, and that was whether or not a policy of insurance, which, confessedly, prior to that date, did not cover the boiler which exploded, was so modified February 24, 1892, by a verbal agreement, that it did cover it on March 21,1892, when it exploded.
The Laclede Fire-Brick Manufacturing Company, the plaintiff in error, was a corporation…
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