Corkery v. Security Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Plymouth District Court. — Hon. Scott M. Ladd, Judge. Action to recover upon a policy of insurance of certain personal property, in a certain building, against lost or damage by fire.
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Appeal from Plymouth District Court. — Hon. Scott M. Ladd, Judge. Action to recover upon a policy of insurance of certain personal property, in a certain building, against lost or damage by fire. Plaintiff alleges the issuance of the policy by the defendant to him; the loss of the property by fire, without fault or negligence on his part; the value of the property destroyed; that proofs of the loss, and request for arbitration, were made as required in said policy; and that defendant refuses to pay said loss. Plaintiff asks judgment for one thousand dollars, with interest. Defendant answered…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
1 2 *3873 *386I. Following the order of the trial, we first inquire as to errors assigned and argued upon the admission and rejection of evidence. Plaintiff, having testified that the policy in suit was executed in renewal of a former policy, was permitted to state, over defendant’s objection, that he told Mr. Koehler to make this policy payable to Mr. Moreton, mortgagee, as his claim might appear in case of loss; that he told him to renew the policy, and to put the Moreton mortgage in the same as it was before. Appellant seems to understand the evidence objected to as relating to the former policy,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ogden v. . East River Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
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