Northrup v. Mississippi Valley Insurance
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. other points, among other points,contended that the indorsement on the policy, “ Loss, if any, payable to Northrup,” etc., by the clerk of defendant, did not amount to a renewal of the policy to plaintiffs. The cleric had no power to make a new policy, and could not make a substitution amounting to a renewal. (42 Mo. 874.) There wras error in the action at Special Term, and the reversal by General Term was proper.
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
The material facts in this case appear to be these: In the month of October, 1866, respondent issued two policies of insurance to the St. Louis Museum, Opera and Fine Art Gallery Association: one for $2,500 upon the “theatre part” of the building known as the St. Louis Museum and Opera House, the other for the same amount “ on museum collections contained in museum part” of the building. The rate of premium charged and paid on each of the policies was three per cent., and on each was the written entry made at the time of issuing the policy, “notice of other insurance waived until required.”…
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