Hovey v. Home Ins. Co.

SWING, District Judge.

The petition in this case alleges that the Independent Insurance Company, prior to the 9th of October, 1871, had issued eight policies of insurance to eight several parties, and that prior to that date the defendant, the Home Insurance Company, for a valuable consideration, had issued to the said Independent Insurance Company policies of reinsurance upon each of said original policies of insurance in certain specified amounts. That on the 9th and 10th days of October the property covered by said policies of insurance was destroyed by fire; that the total amount of…