Banks v. Cramer

The plaintiff sued to recover damages from the defendant for failure to fulfill an agreement to insure plaintiff’s property. The testimony offered on behalf of the plaintiff tended to show that the defendant promised the plaintiff to cause a policy of insurance to be written on his dwelling house in the sum of $300; that the insurance premium was paid; and that plaintiff supposed that the insurance policy had been issued, and retained by the defendant as security for a mortgage which defendant or his father-in-law retained on plaintiff’s property. Plaintiff’s dwelling house was consumed by…