Arnold Goodman v. Quaker City Fire and Marine Insurance Company

HARTIGAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on April 18, 1956 for the defendant, after trial without jury, on an action for fire loss under an insurance policy.

The district court had before it, among other issues, that of insurable interest as it pertained to plaintiff’s right to recovery. Since the court’s conclusion, as detailed in its opinion, that a mortgagor’s continuing liability on the first mortgagee’s note is sufficient, even after foreclosure by the second mortgagee, to…