Hartford Fire Insurance v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This was an action brought May 10, 1893, in the district court of Jones County in the State of Iowa, against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, a railroad corporation of Wisconsin, by seven fire insurance companies, corporations of 'other States, to recover for the loss by fire, owing to the defendant’s negligence, of a warehouse and goods, belonging to the partnership of Simpson, Mclntire & Company, and insured by the plaintiffs, who had paid the loss.
The petition alleged that on November 11, 1892, and long before, the partnership was doing business at Monticello in that…
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