Chapman v. Rockford Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from judgments of the circuit court for Eond du Lac county: N. S. G-ilsok, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover for loss sustained by the plaintiff under the standard insurance policy of Wisconsin, issued by the defendant RocJford Insurance Company on the plaintiff’s stock of goods, Avhich were wholly destroyed by fire at Oakfield, Wis., July 0, 1893, and claimed to be of the value of $13,465.12. The plaintiff held policies with six other companies upon…
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Appeals from judgments of the circuit court for Eond du Lac county: N. S. G-ilsok, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover for loss sustained by the plaintiff under the standard insurance policy of Wisconsin, issued by the defendant RocJford Insurance Company on the plaintiff’s stock of goods, Avhich were wholly destroyed by fire at Oakfield, Wis., July 0, 1893, and claimed to be of the value of $13,465.12. The plaintiff held policies with six other companies upon the same goods for various amounts, namely, Traders’ Insura/ncé Company, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, American Fire…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNiey, J.
1. These appeals involve questions of considerable importance in respect to tbe construction and effect to be given to tbe appraisal clause in tbe standard policies now in use in this state. Tbe policies in question provide that loss or damage shall be ascertained or estimated by tbe assured and .the company, or, in case of difference between them, then by appraisers as therein provided, and that “ tbe loss shall not become payable until sixty days after . . . an award by appraisers, when appraisal has been required.” This provision furnishes a speedy, convenient, and inexpensive mode of…
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- Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- President of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Hamilton v. Home InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- McCullough v. Phœnix InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Reed v. Washington Fire & Marine InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
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