Jones v. German Insurance

1 Hjow shall the exact time of “noon” be determined, by “common” or “standard” time ? At Crestón, Iowa, the latter is seventeen and one-half minute^ faster than the former, and, as the policy sued on covered the property destroyed “for one year from the 18th day of September. 1896, at twelve o’clock at noon, to the 18th day of September 1897, a.t twelve o'clock at noon,” and the fire broke out on the last day at about 11:45 o’clock; a. m., common time, or at about two and one-half minutes after 12 o’clock standard time, the rights of the parties depend on the correct solution of this…