Michael v. St. Louis Mutual Fire Insurance

This is an action on a policy insuring plaintiff, Joseph Michael, and his assigns against loss by fire, in the sum of two thousand dollars, on a stock of goods in a country store. Martin Michael, who claims to hold the policy as collateral security for Joseph’s debt to him of one thousand dollars, joins as plaintiff in the action. The •main controversy between the parties on the trial of the cause was whether the policy had been avoided by part alienation of the property, and whether the instructions of the court, touching jjlaintiff’s right of recovery, the ownership of the goods, and the…