Legal Opinion

Providence Washington Insurance v. Board of Education

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 25, 1901PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Action by the Providence Washington Insurance Company and others against the Board of Education of the Morgantown School District. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

McWhorter, Judge:

The Board of Education of the Morgantown School District procured from Providence Washington Insurance Company insurance in the amo ant of four thousand dollars on its two story tin roofed public school building on the east side of Spence Street in Morgantown, West Virginia, against loss or damage by fire, by policy dated December 24, 1894, to run three years from that date, and at the same time said Board of Education procured insurance on same building from Firemans Fund Insurance Company of San Francisco, California, by policy óf same date in the sum of three thousand…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Thompson v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Insurance Co. v. MowrySupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  3. Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  4. Brady v. North Western InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1863
  5. Martin v. ColeSupreme Court of the United States · 1881

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Paxton v. Benedum-Trees Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1917
  2. Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. StrayhornTexas Commission of Appeals · 1919
  3. Maupin v. Insurance Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1903
  4. Simmons v. SimmonsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1919
  5. Central Trust Co. v. Virginia Trust Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1938

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