Old Colony Insurance Company v. Messer

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

The insurer has appealed from a judgment in favor of Inez Goldman on a policy of fire insurance in which S. D. Messer was named as the insured. Messer instituted the suit as sole plaintiff. Before trial, however, he and Mrs. Goldman joined as plaintiffs and represented in their joint petition that Mrs. Goldman was equitably entitled to the benefits of the policy of insurance. Upon a jury’s verdict it was decreed that Messer take nothing, but that Mrs. Goldman recover of the insurance company the sum of two thousand dollars, the face value of the policy.

Mr. Messer…