Ottens v. Atlas Assurance Co.

The following opinion was filed November 9, 1937:

Wickhem, J.

The first question upon this appeal (and in view of the court’s conclusions the only one that need be dealt with in this opinion) is, May a party to a standard fire insurance policy issued in complete conformity to statutory requirements have this policy reformed by the substitution of provisions inconsistent with its standard provisions ? The court is of the view that this question must receive a negative answer. In Bourgeois v. Northwestern National Ins. Co. 86 Wis. 606, 610, 57 N. W. 347, this court said, referring to the standard…