Millers National Insurance v. Bunds

*664The^ opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This appeal presents, primarily, this question: May the owner of grain stored in a public warehouse (G. S. 1935, ch. 34, art. 2) whose grain has been destroyed by fire recover on a fire insurance policy issued to the warehouseman under section 34-236, G. S. 1935, although the fire had been caused, without connivance or knowledge of the owner, by the felonious act of the warehouseman?

Brief statement of the facts will suffice. F. L. Bunds was licensee and operator of a local public warehouse at Scranton, Kan. As such licensee he obtained a…