Firemen's Insurance v. Kuessner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Nathaniel C. Sears, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
Appellee brought an action on a policy of insurance for §300, of date October 6,1891, and upon an alleged oral contract for §1000 insurance on the same property, alleged to have been made March 1,1892, by the appellant. The property on which insurance was claimed was destroyed by fire about five o’clock P. M. on March 1,1892, the application for insurance, on which the oral contract is alleged, having been presented at an earlier hour of that day. A recovery was had in the trial court on the policy and also on the oral contract.
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Tayloe v. Merchants' Fire Ins. Co. of BaltimoreSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
- Trustees of the First Baptist Ch. v. . Brooklyn Fire Ins.New York Court of Appeals · 1859
- Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance v. Union Mutual Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1857
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. FarrishIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
- Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. SmithAppellate Court of Illinois · 1895
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