Phœnix Insurance v. Asberry

Atkinson, Justice.

The plaintiff', being the owner of certain tenements situated upon real property belonging to him, procured the defendant, the insurance company, to issue its policy of insurance upon these tenements. Among the conditions upon which the policy of insurance issued was the one, that if the property should be sold, or the title or possession of the property, or any part thereof, was transferred or changed, “whether by legal process, judicial decree, voluntary transfer, conveyence or otherwise, . . ” the policy was to be void. Subsequently to the issuing of the policy of…