Home Insurance Co. v. Akers

This was a cause of action brought to reform a policy of fire insurance issued by the Home Insurance Company of New York to J. H. Akers, on the ground that a mistake was made in the description of the lots on which a part of the insured prop-ferty was located. Plaintiff also seeks to fenforce payment of the policy after same is reformed, because of the loss of said- property by fire during the time the policy was in force.

The material parts of the plaintiff’s petition are as follows:

That on or about August 3, 1917, he was the owner of a one-story frame building with metal roof in which he had…