Aetna Insurance v. Chicago Great Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Howard District Court. — H. E. Taylor, Judge. Action by several insurance companies jointly against the defendant railway company to recover $2,500 paid in losses to Gilchrist & Company upon an elevator building situated upon defendant’s right of way. A demurrer to defendant’s answer was overruled, and plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
— Plaintiffs allege in their petition that the defendant Gilchrist & Company owned a building situated on the right of way of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company at Elma, Iowa, used for receiving and storing articles of commerce transported or to be transported, which, on May 17, 1917, caught on fire from sparks and cinders emitted from one of defendant’s locomotives, and was totally destroyed; that, at the time, Gilchrist & Company held policies of insurance on said building, issued by plaintiff companies as follows: By the Phoenix Assurance Company, $625; by the Commonwéalth…
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