Bowdoin v. Hammond
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. This appeal was taken from a decree of the lower Court (Dennis, J.) requiring William Graham Bowdoin and Alexander Brown, surviving partners of the firm of Alexander Brown & Sons, to pay to Ormond Hammond, Jr., the sum of $15,158.69, with interest thereon from the time it was received by them. The case is stated in the opinion of this. Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
There is no dispute whatever in regard to the facts of this case. Hammond, the appellee, borrowed of Alexander Brown & Sons fifty thousand dollars, to secure the payment of which he mortgaged certain premises in Baltimore city, then used as a cold storage warehouse. The mortgagor covenanted to insure and to keep] insured the mortgaged premises, and in pursuance thereof, he insured the property to the amount of $56,000, apportioned as follows: $33,000 on the buildings, and $23,000 on the machinery.
Each of the twenty-one policies was endorsed as follows: “Loss,if any,payable to Alexander Brown…
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- Hanover Fire Insurance v. Alexander Brown & SonsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1893
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