Keck v. Hotel Owners Mutual Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Union District Court. — Hon. W. H. Tedeord, Judge. Action on a policy of fire insurance to recover an amount alleged to be due on account of the destruction of the property insured by fire. There was a trial by the court without the intervention of a jury, and a judgment in favor of the defendant, the Anchor Fire Insurance Company for costs. The plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
In December, 1889, the Hotel Owners’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Crestón issued to the plaintiff the policy in suit. It purported to insure her against loss or damages by fire and lightning to the amount of two thousand, five hundred dollars on certain hotel property in the town of Kearney, in the state of Nebraska. Other insurance was permitted and carried. In January, 1890, the name of the company was changed to Anchor Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and it is made the defendant under both the old and the new names. On the twenty-fourth day of March, 1890, while the policy was in force,…
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