Burrows v. Farmers Alliance Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant on an insurance policy covering four stacks of wheat.

The wheat had been grown on land belonging to W. H. Smith and wife. Those persons, desiring to go to California, made a contract with plaintiff that he should harvest, stack, thresh and sell two-thirds of the crop for their benefit, and that he should have one-third of the crop for these services. After harvest plaintiff obtained from defendant a policy of fire insurance covering the stacked grain. No mention of the two-thirds interest…