Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Co. v. Swift

McMEANS, Associate Justice.

Luther Swift and Fritz Swift,, appellees, sued the appellant, Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Com-pony, to recover upon a fire insurance policy issued by the appellant, the- -subject of insurance being a house owned by appellees which was destroyed by fire.

In defense of the suit appellant pleaded a clause of the policy which provided that the policy should be void if the hazard be increased by any means within the knowledge or control of the assured, and alleged "that the hazard, as it existed at the time the policy was issued, was increased within the knowledge and…