Peoples & Planters Mutual Fire Ass'n v. Wyatt

1. Where a fire-insurance policy appears, upon its face, to be issued to a husband in his individual capacity upon property purporting to belong to him, but which in fact belongs to the wife, the policy *685will, where the insurer, through the agent issuing-it, had actual notice from the husband, at the time, that the property insured belonged to the wife, be construed as a valid contract of insurance, covering the property of the wife, issued to the husband as trustee, and the husband can recover therefor for the benefit of the wife. See, in this connection, Civil Code (1910), § 2472; Atlas…