Continental Insurance v. Ruckman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—■ heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. W. H. Snyder, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was a bill in chancery, brought by Stephen Buckman against the Continental Insurance Company of the city of New York, praying for the reformation of a policy of insurance, and for a decree for the amount of the complainant’s loss and damage by fire to the property insured. The policy in question bore date March 24, 1884, and insured the complainant, for the term of three years, against loss or damage by fire, in the sum of $100 on his one-story, frame, shingle-roof dwelling house, and $600 on his log barn, situate in St. Charles county, Missouri. The following facts shown by the…
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- Ætna Insurance v. MaguireIllinois Supreme Court · 1869
- Pitney v. . Glen's Falls Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Schomer v. Hekla Fire InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1880
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- Pollock v. German Fire-InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1901
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