Merchants' & Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance v. Washington Mutual Insurance

Opinion of the Court by

Stoker, J.

The plaintiffs and the defendants at the time the cause of action is alleged to have arisen, were both incorporated companies under the laws of Ohio, and transacted business in Cincinnati.

On the 26th of October, 1847, the plaintiffs, having previously taken a fire risque of $8000, for the benefit of D. White & Co., on stock of flour, grain, and cooperage contained in their “stone and brick steam-flouring mill," with cement roof, and detached from all other buildings, situated in the city ’of Madison, Indiana, and known as the City Mills,” applied to the…