Johnson v. Farmers' Insurance Co.

Deemer, J.—

Originally these were' independent law actions brought upon separate policies of fire insurance to recover the amount of plaintiff’s loss by fire on a blacksmith shop and its contents located in the town of Floris, Davis county, Iowa. The Farmers’ Company denied that plaintiff was the owner of the personal property in the building, and pleaded false swearing on the' part of the insured in his proofs of loss regarding his ownership of the property. The policy in the Farmers’ Company was on plaintiff’s blacksmith shop, tools, wood and iron material, farm implements, and buggies.…