Legal Opinion

Mechanics & Traders Insurance v. Mutual Real Estate & Blg. Ass'n

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 30, 1896PublishedCited by 54 opinions

Action on. insurance policy. Before J. R. Lamar, judge pro hao vice. City court of Richmond county.

1Opinion of the Court

Simmons, Chief Justice.

The Mutual Real Estate and Building Association sued the Mechanics and Traders Insurance Company of New Orleans, alleging that the defendant was indebted to it in the sum of $1,875 upon a certain fire insurance policy. It appeared from the declaration, that the policy was issued by the defendant on October 6, 1891, to' P. J. Skinner, for $2,000, on property described as “his one^story frame shingle-roof dwelling-house,” located at a place named, “in course of construction,” that Skinner was a contractor and was erecting the building upon a lot belonging to the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Weed v. London & Lancashire Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
  2. Mers v. Franklin InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1878
  3. Collins v. St. Paul Fire & Marine InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
  4. Waller v. Northern Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1884
  5. Lasher v. St. Joseph Fire & Marine InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1881

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3Cited by54 opinions

  1. Johnson v. Ætna InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  2. Todd v. German American InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
  3. Reese v. Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  4. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. HaleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1933
  5. Athens Mutual Insurance v. EvansSupreme Court of Georgia · 1909

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