Hronish v. Home Insurance
South Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, ¡Charles Mix County. Hon. Robert B. Tripe, Judge. Action by Rudolph R. Hronish against the Home Ins manee Company of New York, to recover upon a policy of fire insurance. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. This form of policy is prescribed by statute. The insurance company has to use it.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, ¡Charles Mix County. Hon. Robert B. Tripe, Judge. Action by Rudolph R. Hronish against the Home Ins manee Company of New York, to recover upon a policy of fire insurance. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order denying a new trial, defendant appeals. This form of policy is prescribed by statute. The insurance company has to use it. It has no choice in the matter, and the company and the insured canot enter into any agreement dif- ' ferent from that prescribed. The form of the policy is part of the law of the state, and everyone is bound to know its terms…
1Opinion of the CourtPolfey, J.
This action is 'brought to recover on a fire insurance policy. The policy sued upon was issued on the nth day of November, 1910, to one F- J. Hronish, by the defendant company, through its local agent, at Fairfax, insuring, for a period of one year after date, a certain frame building in Fairfax, of which said Hlronish was then the owner. On the 13th day of January, 1911, the insured property was sold, and the policy assigned to one Chas, A. Johnson, who on May 9, 1911, sold said property and assigned said policy to Rudolph R. Hronish, who was the owner thereof until the nth day of October,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Northern Assurance Co. v. Grand View Building Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Van Schoick v. . Niagara Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Wood v. . American Fire Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Forward v. Continental InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Short v. . Home Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
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