Conniff v. Detroit Fire & Marine Insurance

This is an action by George Conniff to recover on a fire insurance policy in the sum of one thousand dollars issued by the Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Detroit, Michigan, a corporation. At the date of the policy, one O. F. Mel-der held a mortgage on the property, and, by inadvertence, a mortgage clause, making loss, if any, payable to the mortgagee, as his interests shall appear, was not attached to the policy. The action asked for reformation of the policy in that respect, and that the judgment should run, first, in favor of the mortgagee, and the balance in favor of the…