Oatman v. Bankers' Fire Relief Ass'n
Oregon Supreme Court
From Douglas: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mb. Justice Ramsey. This is an action by H. M. Oatman and T. A. Lane against the Bankers and Merchants’ Mutual Fire Relief Association upon a policy of fire insurance, issued by the defendant to the plaintiffs, to recover the sum of $2,000, the amount of said policy. This policy was issued September 7, 1911, upon a two-story frame dwelling-house at Myrtle Creek in Douglas County and upon personal property.
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From Douglas: James W. Hamilton, Judge. Department 1. Statement by Mb. Justice Ramsey. This is an action by H. M. Oatman and T. A. Lane against the Bankers and Merchants’ Mutual Fire Relief Association upon a policy of fire insurance, issued by the defendant to the plaintiffs, to recover the sum of $2,000, the amount of said policy. This policy was issued September 7, 1911, upon a two-story frame dwelling-house at Myrtle Creek in Douglas County and upon personal property. The amount of insurance on the house was $1,600 and on the personal property $400. All of said property was destroyed by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ramsey
The evidence tended to show that the plaintiffs were the owners of the personal property insured.
1. The plaintiff H. M. Oatman, when a witness in his own behalf, was asked who owned the real estate insured in the policy sued on, and answered: “My wife, Mr. Lane’s boy, Mr. Lane’s wife, Floyd Weaver, and *391Annie Fry, and a few small interests in it of two little cousins of hers or Mrs. Dement’s. I do not know what their given names are; two minor heirs, two little girls.” This witness testified also that he and his coplaintiff owned the dower interest of Mrs. Emma Dement in said real property,…
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