Stenzel v. Pennsylvania Fire Ins.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas G. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by Herman Stenzel against the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and the insurance company appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This suit is brought on a policy of insurance issued by the defendant company on plaintiff’s dwelling and its appurtenances, which were destroyed by fire. Two creditors of plaintiff have intervened, claiming nearly the entire amount of the insurance, by virtue of mortgages they held on the property. That the debts are due, and were secured by mortgage on the property insured, is not contested.
*1022The defenses are, first, that nothing is due, •because at the time of the fire the policy had become void as the result of the accomplishment of certain conditions expressed in it; and, second, that at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Washington Mills Emery Manufacturing Co. v. Weymouth & Braintree Mutual Fire InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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