Norman v. Kelso Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Sibley county to reform a certain policy of fire insurance and to recover $200 damages for the destruction of six stacks of wheat.
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Action in the district court for Sibley county to reform a certain policy of fire insurance and to recover $200 damages for the destruction of six stacks of wheat. The complaint alleged that, at the time the contract was entered into, it was mutually agreed that all of plaintiff’s stock and farm property on all the several tracts of land described should be insured, and plaintiff believed and understood the application for such insurance and said policy had been so written in accordance with such agreement of the parties; that through the mistake of defendant’s agent in writing the…
1Opinion of the Court
[Jaggard, J.]1
Plaintiff, a farmer, owned eighty acres in section 21, 'and another eighty in-section 23, which he cultivated as one farm. He raised grain, horses, and cattle on both tracts. One Strebel (deceased at time of trial), an agent of defendant company, saw plaintiff with respect to renewal of an insurance policy plaintiff had' formerly had with defendant company. An application' was signed by the plaintiff, in which the property was described as the northeast quarter of section 21. In other words, the policy insured one eighty acres which plaintiff did not own, and did not insure…
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Hay v. . Star Fire Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Kausal v. Minnesota Farmers' Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- Fritz v. FritzSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Spurr v. Home InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Hoon v. HoonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
3Cited by15 opinions
- Hockemeyer v. PoolerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1964
- MacK v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1926
- Gartner v. GartnerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1956
- Haley v. Sharon Township Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1920
- Norem v. Iowa Implement Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1923
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