Daughters v. German-American Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Milton, J.:

This action was brought by the plain- ^ tiff in error upon a fire-insurance policy for $500 issued *459by the defendant in error. In the course of the trial it developed that after the loss by fire of the insured property, and prior to the commencement of this action, the policy sued upon and another for $1500, issued by the Queen Insurance Company upon the same property, had been assigned by the plaintiff to the First National Bank of Fort Scott, as collateral security for the payment of indebtedness aggregating about $1100, owing by the…