Legal Opinion

Funk v. Anchor Fire Insurance

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided September 24, 1915PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from Muscatine District Court. — Hon. A. P. Barker, Judge. Action by mortgagee on a policy issued to mortgagor and made payable to mortgagee as her interest might appear. Judgment and decree in the court below for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.

— This action is brought by the plaintiff against the defendant company upon a certain policy of insurance, issued on the 28th day of November, 1904, in which defendant company undertook to and did insure, by the terms of the policy, the premises in controversy against loss by fire for the term of five years. The plaintiff bases her right to recover from the company upon the following facts, which are not disputed in this record:

On the 3d day of June, 1905, she loaned to one Lulu R. Henning $550.00, and took a mortgage upon the premises insured to secure the loan. At the time the loan was…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Farnum v. Phoenix InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
  2. George H. Fitchner & Co. v. Fidelity Mutual Fire Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1897
  3. Insurance Co. of North America v. McDowell & BrownIllinois Supreme Court · 1869
  4. Gurnett v. Atlas Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
  5. Bidwell v. . the North Western Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1862

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Nertney v. National Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1925
  2. Witherow v. United American InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1929
  3. United States Fire Ins. Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935
  4. Dodge v. Grain Shippers' Mutual Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1916
  5. Bawden v. American Central InsuranceSupreme Court of Virginia · 1929

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