Burns v. Alliance Co-operative Insurance
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Sedgwick district court, division No. 1; Richard E. Bird, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mason, J.:
L. O. Rutter obtained from the Alliance Co-operative Insurance Company a five-hundred-dollar fire insurance policy on a building owned by him. Afterwards he mortgaged the property to C. A. Burns for $250, and a slip was attached to the policy making the loss payable to the mortgagee, as his interest should appear. Thereafter Rutter was adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition, and the trustee sold the property. Still later-it was destroyed by fire. , The mortgagee demanded payment to the amount of his lien, and on being refused brought this…
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