Norris v. Alliance Insurance

The plaintiff was the bona fide purchaser of an automobile- and defendant issued to him a policy of insurance ¿gainst theft. The policy contained a condition that it should be void "if the interest of the insured in the subject-matter of this insurance be other than unconditional and sole ownership.” The automobile was stolen from plaintiff, who brought suit on the policy and recovered, from which defendant has appealed on the ground that the trial court refused to direct a verdict for defendant, for the reason that plaintiff’s interest in the automobile was not an unconditional and sole…