Bucher v. Employers Casualty Company

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This appeal is from summary judgments granted the defendant in a suit filed against it to recover for fire loss in which suit all plaintiffs were joined. The primary question to be resolved is whether or not a change in ownership of the insured property occurred within the meaning of the insurance policy in question, when the plaintiffs (sellers) entered into a contract of sale and the purchasers were thereafter in possession of the property and had partly performed under the contract by making the down payment and at least one monthly payment.

The policy of insurance…