Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Er^or to the'Circuit Court for Missouri. This was an action against the Hartford Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance in the sum of five thousand dollars, issued by the said company, a corporation created under the laws of Connecticut, to the plaintiff, .upon a.brick building, belonging to him, situated in Kansas City, in the ■State of Missouri. The policy bore date on the first of June, 1861, and was for one year.
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Er^or to the'Circuit Court for Missouri. This was an action against the Hartford Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance in the sum of five thousand dollars, issued by the said company, a corporation created under the laws of Connecticut, to the plaintiff, .upon a.brick building, belonging to him, situated in Kansas City, in the ■State of Missouri. The policy bore date on the first of June, 1861, and was for one year. The building was destroyed by. fire in March, 1862, and in June, following the plaintiff brought an action for the loss sustaihed ‘in the Kansas City 'Court of Common…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
By the demurrer to the replication two questions are presented for our determination: First; whether the condition against the maintenance of any action to recover a claim upon the policy, unless commenced within twelve months after the loss, is valid; and Second; whether if valid,, the condition was complied with in the present case under the statute of limitations of Missouri.
The objection to the condition is founded upon the notion that the limitation it prescribes contravenes the pplicy of the statute of limitations. This notion arises from,a misconception of the nature ánd object of…
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