Kinnan v. Globe Indemnity Co. of New York

By this appeal defendant seeks the reversal of a decree on a creditor’s bill adjudging that complainant recover from-defendant the sum of $5,966.59 and costs.

Complainant’s bill is based on a policy of insurance issued by defendant to the Charles B. Hurst Company. The decisive question involves the validity of a provision of the policy that the insurer is liable only for what the assured actually pays for damages.

The bill of complaint alleges that on September 4, 1912, John Kinnan, the complainant, was employed by the Charles B. Hurst Company as a servant in the erection of a silo at Polo,…