Hammond v. Capital City Mutual Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
' Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marquette county: Oiiestee A. Eowlee, Circuit Judge. Action upon a fire insurance policy. It appears that the defendant company sometime in October or about the 1st of November, 1909, took over the business of another insurance company known as the Poynette Mutual Fire Insurance Company and issued new policies to its members.
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' Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marquette county: Oiiestee A. Eowlee, Circuit Judge. Action upon a fire insurance policy. It appears that the defendant company sometime in October or about the 1st of November, 1909, took over the business of another insurance company known as the Poynette Mutual Fire Insurance Company and issued new policies to its members. About November 1, 1909, it delivered to plaintiff a Wisconsin standard form policy reciting that defendant “in consideration of the stipulations herein named and $4.38 premium does insure Hammond Bros., of Westfield,…
1Opinion of the CourtViNJE, J.
Tbe principal error assigned is that tbe plaintiff was allowed, against objection by defendant, to testify as to tbe substance of conversations bad between himself and defendant’s 'agent, Johnson, previous to tbe issuance of tbe policy, wherein tbe different ownerships of tbe property contained in tbe hotel building was claimed to have been disclosed to Johnson and the property pointed out to him, and wherein, plaintiff testified, it was expressly agreed tbat tbe policy to be written should cover bis individual property, tbe individual property of bis brother, Zera Hammond, and tbe…
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