Fidelity Title & Trust Co. v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 144, Oct. T., 1891, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1891, No. 161, on verdict for plaintiff in trespass, for negligence in causing damages by fire. The action was brought in the name of “the Fidelity Title fc Trust Co., trustees of the estate of Jas. Patterson deceased, for use of Ins.
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Appeal, No. 144, Oct. T., 1891, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., June T., 1891, No. 161, on verdict for plaintiff in trespass, for negligence in causing damages by fire. The action was brought in the name of “the Fidelity Title fc Trust Co., trustees of the estate of Jas. Patterson deceased, for use of Ins. Co. of North America,” to recover from defendant the amount paid by the use plaintiff to the Fidelity Co. upon a policy of fire insurance on the Patterson block, in Pittsburgh. The evidence, on the trial before Slagle, J., was to the effect that the use plaintiff and other…
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Opinion by
Me. Justice McCollum,. The specifications of error in this case are founded upon the answers to the points submitted by the parties. The first and most material question raised by them is, whether the agreement on December 30, 1887, between the Fidelity Title & Trust Co., as trustee of the Patterson property, and the Peoples Natural Gas Co. appellant, is a bar to this action. In Ins. Co. of North America v. Fidelity Title & Trust Co., 123 Pa. 523, the present appellee unsuccessfully contended that this agreement released the Peoples Natural Gas Co. from liability for fire loss, and…
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