City of Davenport v. Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Court. ACTION on a policy of insurance/ On tbe 20th day of March, 1860, the plaintiff, by a committee of its- counsel, applied to the agents of defendant to insure a building.¡ known as the city hospital. The agents of defendant agreed to insure the building for the sum of one thousand dollars, for one year at one and a half per cent premium, and the committee agreed to pay that rate.
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Appeal from Scott District Court. ACTION on a policy of insurance/ On tbe 20th day of March, 1860, the plaintiff, by a committee of its- counsel, applied to the agents of defendant to insure a building.¡ known as the city hospital. The agents of defendant agreed to insure the building for the sum of one thousand dollars, for one year at one and a half per cent premium, and the committee agreed to pay that rate. But this agreement was with the understanding that defendant’s agents were to go and see the building, and if they found it as represented by the committee, the insurance was to date…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
Tbe appellant’s counsel assign nine distinct matters as errors of tbe court below, but in tbeir argument they make but four points, and classify tbe assignment of errors thereunder, to wbicb arrangement we will conform as far as practicable.
1. Principal and agent: general agents. I. On the trial, tbe defendant offered to prove tbe instructions given by the defendant’s agents to tbeir clerk, as to taking risks upon vacant property, and also the defendants’ instructions to tbeir agents in . 0 regard to risks on small pox hospitals and property termed extra hazardous. This evidence was excluded…
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